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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

29 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Peristeris Says Greece Must Exploit Renewable Energy
Washington Post
- Jun 29, 2011
- 6 hours ago
June 29 (Bloomberg) -- GEK Terna SA Chairman George Peristeris discusses Greece's renewable energy industry. He talks with Maryam Nemazee on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse." (/Bloomberg) Correction: Clarification: Comments our editors find ...
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The real public opinion on renewable energy
ABC Online
- Jun 28, 2011
- 15 hours ago
So where do Australians want to get their energy from in the future and what do they think about renewable energy as an alternative? It suits the Opposition and some sections of the media to pretend that the only thing we care about is our cost of ...
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NC sees rapid growth in renewable energy industry
The Daily Tar Heel
- Jun 29, 2011
- 2 hours ago
By Stirling Little | The Daily Tar Heel Renewable energy has emerged as a growing industry in the state, according to a recent report by the NC Sustainable Energy Association. The report identified more than 1800 renewable energy projects in the state ...
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BMO Named to Corporate Renewable Energy Index
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jun 29, 2011
- 6 hours ago
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jun 29, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- BMO Financial Group has been named to the global Corporate Renewable Energy Index (CREX) as one of the top 20 companies in the world in terms of the percentage of renewable energy usage. ...
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Boeing fined for jet fuel leak in Seattle
The Seattle Times
- Jun 29, 2011
- 3 hours ago
The state Department of Ecology says it has fined the Boeing Co. more than $100000 for a 300-gallon jet fuel spill in to the Duwamish waterway. The Associated Press Boeing vice president Mary Armstrong says the aerospace giant fully restored the. ...
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Gregoire's chief of staff leaving
The Seattle Times
- Jun 28, 2011
- 22 hours ago
He had previously worked as director of the state Department of Ecology. "There are a number of reasons why I have decided to resign," he wrote to staff in an email. "I have a number of interesting professional opportunities that I want to pursue. ...
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State water official retiring
The Seattle Times
- Jun 28, 2011
- 16 hours ago
Ecology's Ken Slattery says shortages are acute in the Yakima region. He says serious declines in groundwater levels also threaten the quality of life in the West Plains area near Spokane, in the Odessa area east of Moses Lake and near Pullman. ...
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Study could lead to federal investment in the economy and ecology of York River
York Weekly
- Jun 29, 2011
- 14 hours ago
By Susan Morse YORK — US Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, introduced a bill Thursday to fund up to $500000 for a multi-year study of the York River to determine if the waterway is eligible for designation as a Wild and Scenic Partnership River by the ...
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Court Hands Big Victory to Ga. In Tri-State Water War
New York Times
- Jun 29, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By LAWRENCE HURLEY AND PAUL QUINLAN of Greenwire A federal appeals court handed Georgia an enormous victory in long-running, tri-state water litigation yesterday, overturning a decision by a federal judge that could have sharply curtailed the ...
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Contamination still a big problem for US beaches
Baltimore Sun
- Jun 29, 2011
- 48 minutes ago
The Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC), in its annual beach water quality report, awarded superstar status to Rehoboth Beach and Dewey Beach in Delaware, Park Point Lafayette Community Club Beach in Minnesota and Hampton Beach State Park in New ...
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Groups pan water request for proposed Utah plant
San Francisco Chronicle
- Jun 29, 2011
- 7 minutes ago
By JOSH LOFTIN, AP Environmental groups from four states have sent a letter to Utah officials criticizing a request from the owners of a proposed nuclear power plant in Utah to use water from the Green River. The biggest issue for the groups from ...
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California Water Service Group Expands Its Lines of Credit to $400 Million
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jun 29, 2011
- 1 hour ago
SAN JOSE, CA, Jun 29, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- California Water Service Group (Group) /quotes/zigman/208139/quotes/nls/cwt CWT +0.32% today announced that it has expanded the unsecured revolving credit facilities available to the Group and its ...
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran says to counter "inhuman" airline sanctions
    Summary: "Not supplying a passenger plane with fuel is an inhuman action that violates international norms," "The Iranian companies that have sustained losses due to such unilateral actions will definitely follow up the actions ... and will seek compensation." ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman ...
  • Iran carves out an AfPak hub
    Summary: The participation of the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan in the international conference on terrorism held in Tehran over the weekend becomes a major diplomatic and political victory for Iran at the present juncture of regional politics. Both Asif Ali Zardari and Hamid Karza ...
  • EGYPT’S DRIVE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLIC ...
    Summary: We have been on the road this week, in China. We will have a lot of observations from our trip to share in coming days and weeks. In the meantime, we were struck by the announcement earlier this week that 14 additional political parties have been taken into Egypt’s new Democratic ...
  • After the “west”
    Summary: Adib-MoghaddamThe notion of the “west”, like any such construct, has various associations depending on who is using it, where and in what circumstances. Many people (especially in other parts of the world) tend to associate the “west” with military campaigns and foreign intervention ...
  • Russia questions new U.S. sanctions on Iran
    Summary: The unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States against two Iranian companies have raised serious questions, said the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday. The ministry said in a statement that the sanctions, imposed on Iran's national airline Iran Air and the country's major po ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Weirder, Weird Weather --"La Nina, El Nino, La ...
    Some recent news reports have attributed the nation's record snowfall, killer tornadoes, and devastating floods phenomenon to an extreme "La Niña," a band of cold water stretching across the Pacific Ocean with global repercussions for climate and weather. "La Niña...
  • Cygnus X-1 --A Black Hole: Harvard-Smithsonian ...
    Several thousand light-years from Earth, near the "heart" of Cygnus, the swan, two stars are locked in their gravitational destiny. One star is a blue supergiant, known as HDE 226868 --about 30 times as massive as the Sun and 400,000...
  • Image of the Day: The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies
    Image of the Day: The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies What mysteries lurk here! This deep image of the Virgo Cluster comprises approximately 1300 to 2000 member galaxies, forming the heart of the larger Local Supercluster, of which the Local Group...
  • Astronomers Discover a Neutron Star Illuminate ...
    The European Space Agencies' XMM-Newton space observatory has watched a faint star flare up at X-ray wavelengths to almost 10,000 times its normal brightness. Astronomers believe the outburst was caused by the star trying to eat a giant clump of...
  • "Eerie Voices of Saturn" - Audio Signals Diffe ...
    Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the variation in radio waves controlled by the planet's rotation is different in the northern and southern hemispheres. Moreover, the northern and southern rotational variations also appear to change with the Saturnian seasons,...

Natural News

  • Coconut sugar quickly replacing agave nectar a ...
    (NaturalNews) Over the last two years, we've witnessed a mass exodus away from agave nectar and a search for more natural sweeteners that are both low on the glycemic index and high in nutrient density. Several candidates have emerged, but my all-out favorite has become coconut sugar, which is r ...
  • Japan's 'most dangerous reactor' severely dama ...
    (NaturalNews) If you have been following the events surrounding the unfolding Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe here on NaturalNews over the past several months, you are already likely aware that it is now considered by some to be the worst industrial disaster the world has ever seen, and on ...
  • Are you eating pesticides? Canola oil, soybean ...
    (NaturalNews) In a shocking new video, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) reveals that common cooking oils such as canola oil and soybean oil are used as key active ingredients in pesticide products because they work so effectively to kill bugs. The video shows how one pesticide product that kills i ...
  • The true story of SV40, the cancer-causing vir ...
    (NaturalNews) Poliomylitis, or polio for short, is a disease that has been around since ancient times, and despite the medical advances we have made in the United States in terms of regular and natural health, there is still no cure for this dreaded, disabling disease.An infectious viral afflict ...
  • Claim: TSA employees now developing cancer clu ...
    (NaturalNews) In a new twist to the TSA saga to which we can only say, "We told ya so," the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that reveal TSA employees are reporting "cancer clusters" among their own employees who wo ...

Threat Level

  • FBI Raids Iowa Woman’s Home in Lulz Security H ...
    The hacking group Lulz Security ended its 50-day reign of terror this weekend, but the law enforcement hunt for its members will go on. Last week, FBI agents raided an Iowa woman's home because of her connections to the group.
  • Supreme Court Term in Review: It’s a Mixed Bag
    The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2010-2011 term Monday, deciding a slew of technology and civil rights issues, some of which have far-reaching implications for the Freedom of Information Act, intellectual property, warrantless searches of private residences, the "state secrets" privilege and fre ...
  • States May Not Ban Sale, Rental of Violent Vid ...
    The Supreme Court ruled Monday the states may not ban the sale or rental of violent videogames to minors. The case the justices decided concerned a 2005 California ban adopted by state lawmakers. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of San Francisco in 2008 overturned the law, saying there’s n ...
  • Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of W ...
    At the Obama administration’s urging, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to review whether the government, without a court warrant, may affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move. The Justice Department told the justices that “a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy ...
  • Righthaven Says It Owns News Articles It’s Sui ...
    Copyright troll Righthaven told a federal judge Thursday that it has revised its contract with the Las Vegas Review-Journal to give it full copyright ownership over some of the newspapers’ content. It’s a bid to squelch a legal controversy over whether it has the right to sue bloggers who’ve qu ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP's Privatization Future is Indiana's Nightm ...
    At the heart of the Ryan budget plan backed by 98% of Republicans in Congress are two very bad ideas whose time has never come. Privatization of government services and the devolution of their federal funding to the states promise to dramatically raise costs and slash benefits for millions of M ...
  • McConnell and Kyl Peddle GOP Whopper on Taxes ...
    It is often said that historical events occur twice, first as tragedy, then as farce. But as the top two Senate Republicans showed once again on Sunday, when it comes to comes to the GOP and taxes, some episodes produce both. After successfully blackmailing President Obama in December into ext ...
  • The Serially Insincere Mitt Romney
    Last December, the conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat fretted that Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is "serially insincere." His concern is well-founded. After all, Romney gymnastic flip-flops don't merely make it "awfully hard to figure out where he would actua ...
  • "Muddle Through" McCain Rewrites History on Af ...
    Say what you will about the President's Afghan strategy, but if nothing else, Barack Obama has been consistent. Having criticized the Bush administration for diverting badly needed resources to fight the wrong war in Iraq, candidate Obama promised to dramatically increase U.S. troop strength an ...
  • 10 Things the GOP Doesn't Want You to Know Abo ...
    Just two weeks after he seconded Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's dire warnings about the August 2 deadline to raise the U.S debt ceiling, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor walked out of the budget talks aimed at reaching a bipartisan compromise over deficit reduction. Like Arizona GOP Senator ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Culture Jamming - Media Hoaxing - Kommunikatio ...
    Website zur Dokumentation Culture Jamming - Medienaktionismus im 21. Jahrhundert
  • Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia
    Virtual reference book of all things subversive, fraudulent, anti-commercial, or just plain fun and devious. Includes tons of cool links.
  • Michael C. Ruppert: Arrival of the Post-Petrol ...
    Dandelion Salad peakmoment on Jun 24, 2011 Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the ...
  • From Afghans to Gazans: Why can’t we touch you ...
    Hakim Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://ourjourneytosmile.com June 26, 2011 Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers flew kites for the people of Gaza photo by Hakim Dear friends, The approximately 1000 ordinary people sailing with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla II ought to stop us in our ordinary tracks at l ...
  • Rev. James Lawson: Non-Violence as a Science o ...
    Dandelion Salad What makes a Christian different from everyone else? What makes Christianity distinct from any other religion? It is grace – treating others, not as they deserve, but as God wishes them to be treated – with loving-kindness and mercy. Only the cross of Jesus Christ can free us fro ...

Consortium News

  • America's Need for a 'Public Good'
    America's Christian churches have failed to provide moral leadership on behalf of a "public good," observes Rev. Howard Bess. May 7, 2011
  • The Curious Bush/Bin Laden Symbiosis
    George W. Bush engaged in a feckless eight-year pursuit of Osama bin Laden while using him for a political edge, says Robert Parry. May 7, 2011
  • The Anti-War Message of Mother's Day
    The first Mother's Day wasn't a sentimental celebration of moms; it was a fierce call to end the horrors of war, writes Gary G. Kohls. May 8, 2011
  • US Policy Still Misreads the Middle East
    By focusing on the how of "targeted killings," not the why of Muslim anger, U.S. runs the risk of endless war, warns Lawrence Davidson. May 9, 2011
  • Post-Bin Laden Peace Hopes Dim
    U.S. demands for an Afghan "footprint" dims hopes that Osama bin Laden's death had opened a path to peace, reports Gareth Porter. May 9, 2011

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Some U.S. Reactors on Borrowed Time
    Global Support for Nuclear Power Drops A new Ipsos/Reuters poll released on June 22nd reveal that global support for nuclear power has plummetted in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. A survey of over 19,000 people in 24 countries showed that three quarters of people now think nuclear power wil ...
  • Grand Canyon, preserved
    UPDATE A while back we wrote about a uranium-mining ban that was about to expire in the area surrounding the famous U.S. landmark and one of the seven wonders of the natural world – the Grand Canyon.  Thanks to Arizona resident Suzanne Sparling who led the charge to extend it, collecting 50 ...
  • What The Fukushima Is Going On In Omaha?
    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is monitoring events at the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant after a protective berm holding back floodwaters from the Missouri River collapsed early today. The plant, located about 19 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska, is operated by Omaha Public Power ...
  • News Roundup for June 27, 2011
    The Texas Progressive Alliance is ready to say “Sine Die” for the second time as it brings you this week’s roundup. The Congressional map got its final legislative approval, and Off the Kuff analyzes the new districts. This week WCNews at Eye On Williamson posts on the (in)action at The Lege. Qu ...
  • San Antonio’s clean energy push just in the ni ...
    CPS Energy, San Antonioâs municipal utility, has announced plans to shut its two-unit, 871-megawatt JT Deely coal station down by 2018. The utility estimates this move could save as much as $3 billion in environmental upgrades needed for these aging coal-fired units to comply with pending federa ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Loch Ness Monster sighting reported
    The owners of a shop and cafe in the Highlands have reported seeing a strange creature in Loch Ness. Observing it in the water from the store's deckin...
  • Cemetery of "giant aliens" found ?
    In a highly controversial story this week it has been claimed that 200 bodies have been found in Africa. The bodies are allegedly giant in size and we...
  • Warmer oceans causing species migration
    Poisonous algae and jellyfish are being found in British waters due to warmer ocean temperatures Despite dying out over 800,000 years ago, species of ...
  • Russian scientists expect to meet ET by 2031
    A top Russian astronomer has predicted that we will contact alien life within the next two decades. Andrei Finkelstein is director of the Russian Acad...
  • Man walks across the Thames on foot
    Illusionist Steve "Dynamo" Frayne's rise to fame continues as he walks on water across the Thames. Crowds of onlookers watched as the 28-year-old casu...

Grassroots

Climate

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Will the Arab Spring bring U.S.-style “c ...
    One signpost of the shift from the old collective way of approaching politics toward the new and more individualistic one is a change in slogans. “Dignity is the new slogan,”
  • Taliban talks: the new mirage in Afghanistan
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said publicly the United States is holding talks with the Taliban. But is it already too late to reach a peaceful settlement to the war?
  • “Fearsome risks” driving policy ov ...
    In China, where a rash of protests, sometimes violent, have recently flared up and been slapped down, echoes from this year's 'Arab Spring' of rebellion against iron-fisted rulers in the Middle East and North Africa are resonating loudly.
  • Ten years on, still trying to frame the Afghan War
    U.S. President Barack Obama is in the midst of a wrenching decision on whether to quickly bring home the 100,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan or stay the course in the hope that the situation will stabilise in the country
  • No room at the Inn … but maybe a job in ...
    Lucille Lievaux, a 25-year-old French geologist, commutes to work on a plane, a 1,300-km journey from Australia's Indian Ocean city of Perth to the mining town of Karratha, a smudge of suburbia on the continent's barren northwest coast. She is part of growing army of foreigners being recruited f ...

Booman Tribune

  • The Bullying Stops Here!
    The following post was originally published by Alex Sandell (here and here). Republished with permission of the author -- Steven D My best friend is a pharmacist in small-town Minnesota. She's also a lifelong Republican. She hasn't voted Democratic once in her 33 years and she helped deliver ...
  • Nurturing the Backlash
    I think you can imagine how a major bank/investment firm like Goldman Sachs can gain access to power. They obviously can make or withhold campaign contributions. They can throw money into political action committees that go after politicians who want to mess with them. They also can offer pol ...
  • Glenn Beck Earned His Fate
    Glenn Beck poisons our national discourse with an unending stream of lies and paranoia. That's why he has to travel with a security team. That's why he and his family are not welcome in Bryant Park in New York City. He seems to think that he can make himself insanely rich by virtue of shamele ...
  • How Low Can You Go?
    How many more people would have jobs if employers could legally pay them almost nothing? That's an interesting question. But I'd like the answer to a different question. Pollsters should go around to small business owners and ask them how low of a wage they'd be willing to pay their employees ...
  • Everyone Wants To Be Saul Alinsky
    Everybody wants to emulate Saul Alinsky. First we had Markos updating Alinsky's work for the digital age. Then we had Dick Friggin' Armey teaching Alinksy to the nutty teabaggers. Pennsylvania, a perennial swing state, was an early breeding ground for the Tea Party movement. In April 2009, ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 24
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...

Therapy News

  • Stressful Environment May Increase Lung Damage ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline According to a new study from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, children who are exposed to high stress environments experience higher levels of traffic-related pollution (TRP) resulting in increased risk for lung d ...
  • What Issues Co-Dependents Bring to Therapy
    By Joyce McLeod Henley, MSW, LCSW, CEAP, SAP, Codependency Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joyce and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile You may wonder how people get into therapy for co-dependency. Rarely do I have a client come in requesting help for co-dependency. More often cli ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy first official weekend of Summer! We hope this week’s news provides you some good beginning summer reading :-) Biology Behind Urban Anxiety Panic May be Delayed after Stressful Event Youth Cybercrime Linked to Friends’ Influence Do Kids ...
  • How to Tell Young Children about a Parent’s Cancer
    By Norma Lee M.A., M.D., Cancer Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Norma and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “Ellen” is six years old. Her mother has stage four breast cancer, which she has been living with for a couple of years. However, her health is starting to decline. She is ...
  • Neurofeedback as a Treatment for Traumatized M ...
    By Traci Stein, PhD, MPH Complementary & Alternative Medicine Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Traci and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile As we prepare to celebrate our country’s upcoming Independence Day, it seems appropriate to speak about a complementary and alternative medici ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Play it 33 times fast - C-Ville Weekly
    C-Ville Weekly Play it 33 times fast C-Ville Weekly The performances were a fundraiser for a batch of locals hoping to cover the considerable cost of staging Cry of the Mountain, Adelind Horan's one-woman documentary play about mountaintop removal, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, next month i ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Mining Birth Defects: New ...
    Climate Science Watch Mountaintop Removal Mining Birth Defects: New Study Suggests Controversial ... Huffington Post Researchers found "significantly higher" rates of birth defects in babies born near mountaintop removal mining sites than those in non-mining areas, according to a new study rele ...
  • Birth Defects MUCH More Common Near Mountainto ...
    Climate Science Watch Birth Defects MUCH More Common Near Mountaintop Removal PlanetSave.com Yet another reason to love mountaintop removal coal mining and coal-fired electricity � it causes birth defects! Yippee! In all seriousness, though, this is concerning and it is no surprise. Mountaintop ...
  • Study showing higher birth defect rates adds a ...
    Climate Science Watch Study showing higher birth defect rates adds another note of urgency to ... Climate Science Watch The radically destructive practice of mountaintop removal, which has been called 'strip mining on steroids,' helps to drive global warming, plunders Appalachian ecosystems and ...
  • Study notes spike in birth defects near mounta ...
    Study notes spike in birth defects near mountaintop mining The Republic Birth defects are more likely to occur in Appalachian counties with mountaintop removal coal mining than in other counties in the region, according to a recent study. The study, published last month in the peer-reviewed jou ...

Memeorandum

  • Bristol Palin: Michele Bachmann 'Dresses a Lot ...
    Rob Shuter / PopEater: Bristol Palin: Michele Bachmann ‘Dresses a Lot Like My Mom’  —  EXCLUSIVE: Bristol Palin, daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, says her mom has already made up her mind about whether to run for the White House in 2012 — but will leave the big announcement up to her.
  • Dems fault Obama for not using bully pulpit (A ...
    Alexander Bolton / The Hill: Dems fault Obama for not using bully pulpit  —  Senate Democrats are accusing President Obama of failing to use his bully pulpit effectively in the debt-ceiling fight.  —  They say most people are confused about the issue and don't understand they'd face an economic ...
  • Adm. McRaven: Obama administration has no plan ...
    Craig Whitlock / Washington Post: Adm. McRaven: Obama administration has no plan for captured terrorists  —  The top military official involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden said Tuesday that the Obama administration has no clear plan for handling terrorist leaders if they are caught ...
  • Bank of America to pay $8.5 billion settlement ...
    Associated Press: Bank of America to pay $8.5 billion settlement over mortgages  —  NEW YORK — Bank of America and its Countrywide unit will pay $8.5 billion to settle claims that the lenders sold poor-quality mortgage-backed securities that went sour when the housing market collapsed.
  • Republican Voters Lack Enthusiasm for Presiden ...
    Marjorie Connelly / The Caucus: Republican Voters Lack Enthusiasm for Presidential Contenders, Poll Shows  —  Republican voters are not satisfied with the candidates running for the Republican nomination and wish they had more choices, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.  None ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • China’s new wastelands
    In the middle ground between booming cities and rural villages, rubbish is causing friction. Yang Chuanmin visits a Shanghai family, who blame a plastics-recycling centre for the death of their child.Lu Junyi and Wang Qin’s second child, Wang Bole, was 15 months old when he was diagnosed with ac ...
  • Fatal failures on America’s rivers
    Thousands of dams are thought to be at risk of bursting in the United States – threatening to add to the country’s long list of tragic collapses. Joan Bien looks back 80 years to one of the worst.The 56-metre concrete gravity arch structure called St Francis Dam, located 70 kilometres north of L ...
  • How to prepare for crisis
    Margareta Wahlström is the United Nations’ risk-reduction chief. As China and America battle severe floods, she talks to Meng Si about preparing for natural disaster – and coping with the effects.In early June – against the backdrop of severe flooding in both the United States and China – delega ...
  • Kyoto coma
    As we start the six-month countdown to climate-change talks in Durban, Yang Fuqiang and Ang Li ask if there is any hope left for the existing treaty to tackle global emissions.On June 18, the second round of 2011’s UN climate-change negotiations ended in Germany. As the talks drew to a close, th ...
  • Japan’s toxic trials
    As one contamination story draws to a close in the Pacific, another begins. Christine L Marran considers the journey from methylmercury poisoning in the last century to the radiation crisis of today.In March, an exhausting court battle finally ended for over 2,000 victims of mercury poisoning in ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • What's the Matter With Oklahoma? State Launche ...
    While Oklahoma does not have a large immigrant population, the state has become an example of the illogical nature of anti-immigrant and anti-Islam laws.
  • Why the Democrats Need to Stop Hand-Wringing a ...
    …There will be a lot of white working class voters showing up at the polls next November, and the degree to which they support (or abandon) President Obama could very well make or break his reelection. In 2008, during his otherwise-solid election victory, Obama lost the white working class vo ...
  • Home Rule: How Communities Can Stand Up to Pol ...
    If you think that nothing can be done on the local level to combat big polluters like gas fracking companies, think again.
  • Kerry and McCain Unite Behind the Mysteriously ...
    What do Kerry and McCain know about Libya that we donât? At WhoWhatWhy.com, weâve been saying for some time that things just donât add up when it comes to Libya. (For some of our past reporting, see for example this and this and this.) First the White House claimed that NATO needed to [...] ...
  • We Talk of Climate Change But Not Human Change
    Very few of us know how much we must change. We talk of climate change but not human change. We look through a window and envision a completely different vision of life on this Earth. And then that window actually is a door. We open it and we walk to [...] Related StoriesPu ...

Threat Level

  • FBI Raids Iowa Woman’s Home in Lulz Security H ...
    The hacking group Lulz Security ended its 50-day reign of terror this weekend, but the law enforcement hunt for its members will go on. Last week, FBI agents raided an Iowa woman's home because of her connections to the group.
  • Supreme Court Term in Review: It’s a Mixed Bag
    The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2010-2011 term Monday, deciding a slew of technology and civil rights issues, some of which have far-reaching implications for the Freedom of Information Act, intellectual property, warrantless searches of private residences, the "state secrets" privilege and fre ...
  • States May Not Ban Sale, Rental of Violent Vid ...
    The Supreme Court ruled Monday the states may not ban the sale or rental of violent videogames to minors. The case the justices decided concerned a 2005 California ban adopted by state lawmakers. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of San Francisco in 2008 overturned the law, saying there’s n ...
  • Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of W ...
    At the Obama administration’s urging, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to review whether the government, without a court warrant, may affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move. The Justice Department told the justices that “a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy ...
  • Righthaven Says It Owns News Articles It’s Sui ...
    Copyright troll Righthaven told a federal judge Thursday that it has revised its contract with the Las Vegas Review-Journal to give it full copyright ownership over some of the newspapers’ content. It’s a bid to squelch a legal controversy over whether it has the right to sue bloggers who’ve qu ...

Equality Trust

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Egyptian Fenugreek Seeds now possible Link in ...
    According to CIDRAP (my second favorite source of Food Safety News) a trace-back investigations in both the German and French E. coli O104:H4 outbreaks are pointing to two lots of fenugreek seeds that were imported from Egypt (not sure what happened to the Italian connection of yesterday).� Spro ...
  • E. coli O104:H4 cares nothing for Country Borders
    My flight got cancelled today to Boston where I was to spend time with one of the six United States E. coli O104:H4 cases. As I passed through airport security before I headed back to the office, I thought about how difficult national and international travel has become post 9-11. Not so for b ...
  • 15 Sick with E. coli O157:H7 at Opelika Sports ...
    According to a news release - The Alabama Department of Public Health continues its investigation of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Lee County. Thirteen children and two adults who either played in the Splash Park or swam in the pool at the Opelika SportsPlex and Aquatic Center between June 4 an ...
  • Salmonella Outbreaks and Recalls? Nestle cares ...
    I was struck by the press release on the FDA website that Nestle Purina PetCare was voluntarily recalling 870 bags of potentially Salmonella positive cat food shipped only to Colorado, Idaho and Oregon even though there had been no consumer complaints and no reports of illness. Nestle also post ...
  • CDC - 21 Salmonella Enteritidis Infections Lin ...
    The CDC is collaborating with public health officials in many states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infections linked to alfalfa sprouts and spicy sprouts. As of June 27, 2011, a total of 21 persons with the outbrea ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Video: New Prius rap video takes to cruising W ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Whole Foods Parking Lot - Click above to watch video after the jump Turns out, you can spin the whole "cashed up greenie" bit into a few minutes of enjoyable parody rap. Don't believe us? Check out "Whole Foods Parking Lot," the fi ...
  • Report: Glenn Beck goes off on GM's Akerson ov ...
    Filed under: GM, Electric Glenn Beck on the gas tax - Click above to watch video after the jump If there's one thing that is fast becoming true about the Chevy Volt, it's that right-wing political pundits really, really don't like it. So, we will admit up front that this story comes straigh ...
  • Official: Mitsubishi sets Canadian i-MiEV pric ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Canada, Electric $32,998. That's the price that Mitsubishi Motors has announced for the i-MiEV in Canada when the little space egg goes on sale there later this year. (That's $33,891 U.S. at today's exchange rate). Yes, Canada will ge ...
  • Official: New pictures of Tesla Model S Alpha ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Design/Style Tesla Model S Alpha - Click above for high-res image gallery Tesla Motors has put up some new pictures of the Tesla Model S Alpha, and its gorgeous new model looks more production-ready than ever. The changes we can see are subtle, but compared to ...
  • Official: New pictures of Tesla Model S Alpha ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Design/Style Tesla Model S Alpha - Click above for high-res image gallery Tesla Motors has put up some new pictures of the Tesla Model S Alpha, and its gorgeous new model looks more production-ready than ever. The changes we can see are subtle, but compared to ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Drones, Aid and CIA Contractor Raymond Davis: ...
    In part two of our interview with Human Rights Watch Asia senior researcher, Ali Dayan Hasan, he describes the work Asia Times reporter Syed Saleem Shahzad was doing when he was kidnapped, murdered and tortured in May, allegedly by state security forces. He also discusses the impact of drones, ...
  • Amy Goodman To Host Discussion With WikiLeaks ...
    Within the past year, whistleblower website WikiLeaks has released three of the most significant leaks of classified information in history: the Iraq War Logs, the Guantánamo Bay files and Cablegate. Since then the world has undoubtedly changed. Ambassadors have resigned amid scandals exposed ...
  • Welcome to Bloombergville: New York Activists ...
    In New York City, members of the group New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts are camping out near City Hall to protest budget cuts and layoffs. Activists have dubbed the encampment "Bloombergville," named after the city’s mayor Michael Bloomberg and "Hooverville," the popular name for the shanty town ...
  • Japan’s Meltdowns Demand New No-Nukes Thinking
    New details are emerging that indicate the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan is far worse than previously known, with three of the four affected reactors experiencing full meltdowns. Meanwhile, in the U.S., massive flooding along the Missouri River has put Nebraska’s two nuclear plants, both ...
  • After Mubarak, Fighting For Press Freedom in E ...
    Under Mubarak, state-owned media was a propaganda arm of the government, parroting party dogma while dismissing public criticism and political opposition. During the eighteen-day uprising that toppled him, state TV tried to downplay the size of the demonstrations, depicting protesters as funded ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Huge public outcry over TSA forcing 95-year-ol ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) The TSA has once again shown itself to be an agency utterly lacking in respect for human dignity by forcing a 95-year-old cancer patient to remove her adult diaper during the screening procedure. Jean Weber, a leukemia patient, underwent the humilia ...
  • Chicago $108 Billion in the Red – $63,0 ...
    Chicago, June 21, 2011– Cook County taxpayers are on the hook for a staggering amount of local debt, according to figures presented by Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas today. Cook County’s numerous local governments face mounting debts totaling more than $108 billion. And, for the first time, ...
  • Hillary Clinton Gives Green Light For Israeli ...
    by Ali Abunimah / Electronic Intifada In comments yesterday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed to lay the ground – indeed almost provide a green light – for an Israeli military attack on the upcoming Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which will include the US Boat to Gaza. Among the passengers a ...
  • Israel pushes Greece to halt Gaza flotilla
    They complain that Greece is throwing up “administrative obstacles” for the activists in response to pressure from Israel, the Associated Press reported on Monday. “We call on the Greek government to let us sail,” Ann Wright said. The former US State Department official plans to sail with severa ...
  • Why guzzling a diet drink can make you fatter ...
    Diet soft drinks can actually make people fatter, say scientists. Reaching for the Diet cola is a bad idea for those trying to cut calories – because it may make you want to eat more, according to two studies. Artificial sweeteners could be to blame, as they were shown to increase blood sugar le ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...

Inhabitat

  • Spectacular Huercal-Overa Lookout Tower Gets A ...
    Read the rest of Spectacular Huercal-Overa Lookout Tower Gets A Rustic Upgrade Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", castillo miras arquitecturos, COR-TEN steel, eco design, existing materials, green architecture, green design, green renovation, Huercal Ove ...
  • Attila Tari’s Saddle Trike Is a Modern Horsele ...
    You’ve never seen a trike like this before. Designer Attila Tari’s electric Saddle concept is a tricycle with not only a saddle and equestrian-inspired seating position but also reins. Yes, reins. The Saddle concept was inspired by the mobility and connectedness to nature offered by horseback ri ...
  • 100-MPG Honda Insight Rally Car Banned for Bei ...
    What happens if a racing team comes up with a car that has a clear advantage over the competition? They would clean up in awards and championships, right? Well, not exactly. The OakTec team’s Honda Insight hybrid rally car from Lancaster, England, has discovered that having a distinct advantage ...
  • Raumlabor’s ‘Big Crunch’ is an Incredible Buil ...
    Read the rest of Raumlabor’s ‘Big Crunch’ is an Incredible Building Made from Discarded Materials Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: art made from waste, discarded art materials, discarded materials, discarded materials shelter, eco pavilion, eco-art, Georg-Büchner-Platz, German g ...
  • VIDEO: Mary Lou Jepsen on One Laptop Per Child
    Mary Lou Jepsen’s keynote presentation of One Laptop Per Child at our Greener Gadgets conference a few years back was without a doubt one of the highlights of the event. The OLPC laptop, known as XO or the $100 laptop, is a feat of energy efficient engineering, consuming just 2W of energy – whi ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Defeated Videogame-Violence Experts: Science W ...
    An analysis of competing videogame violence reports submitted to the Supreme Court found that researchers warning of links to real-world aggression had far stronger academic credentials than their opponents. Two groups of researchers submitted briefs to court, which on June 27 ruled unconstitut ...
  • Space Junk Scare Sends ISS Crew Scrambling
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK The astronauts inhabiting the International Space Station have been forced into evacuation pods after a bit of space junk floated worryingly close to the station. The six staff on the station climbed into the two Soyuz capsules docked on the ISS in case of just such a ...
  • Lady of the Rings: Chat With Saturn Surveyor C ...
    When Carolyn Porco started exploring the outer solar system, it was all about the rings. Her 1983 doctoral thesis at Caltech focused on shifting spokes in Saturn’s rings discovered by the Voyager spacecraft. As Voyager sailed past Uranus and Neptune, Porco led a group dedicated to their rings, ...
  • Taz Devil Genome Sequenced to Fight Contagious ...
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK American conservationists have sequenced the genome of the Tasmanian devil to help beat a vicious cancer that’s made the marsupial an endangered species. The toothy critter has been ravaged by Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD) for the past 15 years. The cancerous pox too ...
  • Eleven Animal Wonders of Evolution
    See Also: What’s Old Is New: 12 Living Fossils ‘Living Fossil’ Ant Species Dates to Late Cretaceous Repost: The Pelican’s Beak â Success and Evolutionary Stasis The Extreme Mammal Hall of Fame

PakAlert

  • Austerity Riots – A Glimpse Of America’s Future?
    Are the austerity protests and riots happening in Greece right now a glimpse of America's future? The truth is that both nations are absolutely drowning in debt. It is just that the "day of reckoning" has already arrived for Greece but it has not arrived for the United States yet. Yes, there ...
  • Mossad Bomb Russian Plane To Kill Scientists?
    Several Russian nuclear engineers and scientists, including the nuclear expert who designed Iran's nuclear power plant at Bushehr, were killed when a RusAir Tupolev-134 plane crashed while landing at Petrozavodsk, the capital of the north-western Russian Republic of Karelia, on June 20. The five ...
  • How Jinn Control Us
    In my journey to find out who I am, I came upon many things I believe to be true concerning the influence of the world of the Jinn, upon this world. What I have found to be the best body of knowledge concerning the actual mechanics of how a body is operated and controlled here in this physica ...
  • Video: Why Is Russia Building 5000 More Nuclea ...
    Russia certainly seems to be in a hurry to prepare for something. RT is reporting that 5,000 new nuclear bomb shelters will be constructed in the city of Moscow by the end of 2012. Russian authorities believe that these new shelters are urgently needed because the current nuclear bomb shelters ...
  • Nuclear Flood Threat: 1100 troops, 25,000 Home ...
    Emergency Update: At approximately 1:00am Sunday, June 26, the aqua-berm quickly constructed around Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station broke and electricity had to be cut. The plant is now reportedly running on emergency generators as workers try to restore electricity after water surrounded main elec ...

Andy Worthington

  • US Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Abu Ghraib T ...
    With what can only come across as cynical timing, the US Supreme Court on Monday, the day after the UN International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, declined without comment to take up a lawsuit filed on behalf of 250 Iraqis — formerly prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
  • Video: Sarah Gillespie Plays Her Song About Sh ...
    So I count myself fortunate to live in the same neighbourhood as Sarah Gillespie, a wonderful singer/songwriter whose latest album, “In the Current Climate,” features a song about Shaker Aamer, the last British resident held in the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Sarah and I met a few years ...
  • Judges Keep Guantánamo Open Forever
    Seven years ago, on June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court issued a historically important ruling in Rasul v. Bush, establishing that foreign nationals held at the Bush administration’s “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had habeas corpus rights; in other words, the right, under the “Gre ...
  • The Revolution Reaches Europe: Tens of Thousan ...
    The revolutionary movement that began in Tunisia at the end of last year has now sparked mass movements in Europe; principally, to date, in Greece and Spain. On the surface, these movements have little in common. In Tunisia and Egypt, the people came out in vast numbers to overthrow the hated di ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Racist Pittsburgh Triple Cop-Killer Gets Death
    Richard Poplawski, whose life was entwined with racism, firearms and violence before he fatally shot three police officers, should be executed for his crimes, a jury in Pittsburgh concluded last night. It took the 12-member panel only two hours to unanimously choose between the death penalty or ...
  • News Roundup for June 28, 2011
    White supremacist Mark Stroman will be executed in Texas next month after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case.  Stroman was convicted for killing two people and shooting another in a post-9/11 revenge spree targeting people of Middle Eastern descent. A “general” in the Aryan Brothe ...
  • Authorities Find Bomb Apparently Targeting Imm ...
    A U.S. Border Patrol agent found a live pipe bomb while patrolling a known smuggling route west of Tucson on May 30, 2009, a classified memo released by a group that hacked the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff’s department reveals. The device, described in an intelligence bulletin issued by the depar ...
  • News Roundup for June 23, 2011
    A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over “blatantly racist and offensive” comments made by white Philadelphia officers on the popular police Internet forum  Domelights.com. The settlement requires the city to hire an anti-discrimination consultant as well as enhance anti-discrimination tr ...
  • News Roundup for June 27, 2011
    White nationalist Richard Poplawski was found guilty of murdering three Pittsburgh police officers in a 2009 ambush.  The jury today began deliberating Poplawski’s fate. He faces the death penalty. A skinhead leader pleaded guilty to the revenge killing of a Missouri man. Eric Fairburn, co-found ...

change: org.

  • Victory! New York Passes Marriage Equality Bil ...
    Today is a historic day! New York's Senate passed a bill that will grant the freedom to merry for gays and lesbians! The bill will be signed by Governor Cuomo who lobbied extensively for the passage of the legislation. The law will go into effect 30 days after the bill is signed. New York's prog ...
  • The Cost of Fear: Michigan's $15 Million Breed ...
    This week, Gov. Rick Snyder signed Michigan's 2011-2012 budget into law. The process wasn't pretty — a $1.5 billion shortfall had to be resolved, and in the end, public schools, universities, local governments and key services took a hit. Yet Rep. Tim Bledsoe (D-Grosse Pointe) seems to think it' ...
  • Connect the Dots Coalition Will Rally Tuesday ...
    Former New York police officers Ken Moreno and Franklin Mata were found not guilty on charges related to rape. The verdict's perceived injustice -- felt even by members of the jury themselves -- has given rise to protests over the way the NYPD deals with sexual assault. But the then-officers wer ...
  • Smithfield's Broken Gestation Crate Promise
    Back in 2007, Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer,  said it would phase out the use of gestation crates by 2017. Now the company has gone back on that promise even though it recently boasted record profits. Looks like the behemoth pork producer has no excuse for breaking its promise. S ...
  • Tell Turn Right USA to Pull Ad Attacking L.A. ...
    It’s been called the “most offensive political ad of all time.”  That’s because it takes aim at Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn’s support of gang intervention programs by portraying her as a booty-shaking stripper performing for black thugs who demand (or rap, rather) that she “give us your ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Greeks Pass Critical Budget Cuts Despite Protests
    ATHENS, Greece -- Greek lawmakers Wednesday approved a package of austerity measures demanded by international lenders, despite protests outside Parliament as they were voting, in a move that should clear the way for an emergency loan to Athens. Greek riot police fired round after round of tear ...
  • US Cost of War at Least $3.7 Trillion and Counting
    When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America's wars. Staggering as it is, that figure grossly underestimates the total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the U.S. Treasury and ignores m ...
  • Fresh Clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square
    CAIRO - Clashes are continuing between Egyptian security forces and more than 5,000 protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, leaving more than�590 injured, according to witnesses and medical officials. Tahrir Square, the epicenter of protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's former president, ...
  • Rewriting History: Nuke Plants Designed to Las ...
    ROCKVILLE, Maryland� -- When commercial nuclear power was getting its start in the 1960s and 1970s, industry and regulators stated unequivocally that reactors were designed only to operate for 40 years. Now they tell another story - insisting that the units were built with no inherent life span, ...
  • Growing Fire Advances on Nuclear Weapons Lab
    LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico -- UPDATE 8:38 PM EDT -- New Mexico fire managers scrambled on Tuesday to reinforce ground crews battling for a third day against a fierce blaze roaring out of control at the edge of one of the nation's top nuclear weapons production centers. The fire's leading edge burned ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Water wars: 21st century conflicts?
    As almost half of humanity will face water scarcity by 2030, strategists from Israel to Central Asia prepare for strife.
  • 300 Rialto residents speak out on proposed wat ...
    RIALTO - Residents continued to speak out late into the night about a plan to contract out the city's water department at a City Council meeting Tuesday. A vote was expected on the 30-year contract with American Water Works Co. Inc. following the comment period.
  • Don't 'pee three' our water
    It looks like Mission council got the message on the proposed P3 water project and voted against it while Abbotsford council has still yet to vote.
  • Privatization’s unspoken risk: Corruption
    The future of government runs for 10.5 miles through the heart of Broward County, amid rocks and dust and earth-moving equipment and trucks and workers along Interstate 595, where motorists can look out their car windows and contemplate another three years of traffic hell.
  • Water privatization market sees opportunities ...
    With crumbling budgets, increasing water scarcity, and ever widening infrastructure spending gaps, the private water supply market is poised to grow. But public opposition remains strong, as opponents rail against the perceived corporate takeover of what is considered a public good, citing past ...

Guardian

  • Cairo street clashes leave more than 1,000 injured
    Fighting between police and protesters is worst since Mubarak's fall as new leaders accused of same slow tactics on reformThe fiercest street fighting seen in central Cairo since the fall of Hosni Mubarak has left more than 1,000 people injured, as popular dissatisfaction with the military-led t ...
  • Nato reviews Libya campaign after France admit ...
    French defence chiefs admit providing weapons for push on Tripoli in apparent defiance of UN mandateNato was today urgently reviewing the conduct of its military campaign in Libya after France admitted arming rebel fighters in apparent defiance of the UN mandate.The revelation surprised official ...
  • Is US TV too leftwing?
    A new book claims that many of America's top TV shows have followed a leftwing agenda. Could it be equally true in Britain?The news that a publishing division owned by Rupert Murdoch has released a book accusing American TV of liberal bias might sound deeply unsurprising. The belief that NBC, CB ...
  • Brighton Pier put up for sale
    Grade II-listed attraction formerly known as Palace Pier placed on market for first time in more than 25 yearsOne of Britain's most famous seaside attractions, Brighton Pier, has been put up for sale for the first time in more than 25 years.Its owner, Noble Group, has not revealed a guide price ...
  • French journalists freed in Afghanistan
    France 3 television reporter and cameraman freed by Taliban after 547 days in captivity in Kapisa mountains, east of Kabul Two French television journalists held hostage in Afghanistan since December 2009 have been freed, the Elysée Palace has confirmed.Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier of ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • New beginnings
    Thanks for having read my blog over the last few years. As of today, it is moving to a new home with a new look - as are the BBC's other blogs. The new page will carry all my posts, as well as other bits of analysis from around the site. It'll carry tweets as soon as I'm up and running on that p ...
  • Megafires - a vicious climate circle?
    The term "megafire" sounds a bit serious... and so it is. Even more serious is the idea - raised in a report compiled for a UN meeting this week - that megafires are becoming more frequent. Still more alarming is the notion that these magafires are somehow quantitatively different from their sma ...
  • Generation game warms legal climate
    There are times when writing articles about climate change brings a distinct feeling of deja vu. There was a time five or six years ago when litigation over climate impacts featured regularly on this website. Scientists were working up methods of attribution - methods that would allow you to ...
  • Money in trees: The poor end of forest protection
    Some of the world's most important forests may emerge from this week in a more secure state than they were before. � Others may end it worse off. The latest stage in the European Union's plans to help developing countries clean up illegal logging is the signing of a potentially important agree ...
  • Personal tales: a climate-changer?
    Even before the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made its much-discussed error in glacier melting dates, the question of how climate change impacts were being felt across the Himalayas was something of a hot topic. � One of the problems back then, which remains a problem now, i ...

The Wonk Room

  • The Consequences Of Indiana’s Planned Pa ...
    Via RH Reality Check: “The Indiana law that was supposed to ‘defund Planned Parenthood’ may be on hold while a judge rules on it, but some consequences were already seen in the state. According to Indiana news outlets, some doctors confused by the murky language of the law stopped performing abo ...
  • Civil Unions To Face Final Test In New Jersey ...
    Lambda Legal and Garden State Equality filed a lawsuit today that could be the final nail in the coffin of civil unions as a “separate but equal” mechanism for recognizing same-sex relationships. Filed on behalf of seven same-sex families whose civil unions “relegate them to second-class status, ...
  • BREAKING: 6th Circuit Upholds Constitutionalit ...
    The majority writes: “We find that the minimum coverage provision is a valid exercise of legislative power by Congress under the Commerce Clause and therefore AFFIRM the decision of the district court.” Key passage: By regulating the practice of self-insuring for the cost of health care delivery ...
  • Intermission
    -Bridesmaids is going to be the most profitable movie Judd Apatow’s ever been involved with. -Something else we can blame Michael Bay for: giving Tyrese Gibson PTSD. -You Don’t Mess With the Zohan is surprisingly funny, also not in violation of copyright law. -Rob Thomas, please stop torturing m ...
  • America’s Sectoral Shift Toward Idleness ...
    Something you continue to hear is that elevated unemployment is somehow just part and parcel of the fact that the economy is transforming over time because of trade flows, technology, demographics, consumer preferences whatever. This is wrong. Not because the transformations aren’t happening, bu ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • "Tee-Hee"
    I've take some criticism for describing the harpercon majority government as "illegitimate." This criticism tends to come from empty-headed morons whose opinions I have as much regard for as I would a huge, steaming piece of dog-shit on my front steps. There seems to be some inexplicable confus ...
  • Hillary's Hypocrisy
    Here's another example of why Glenn Greenwald rocks. In his post "Plurality of Americans love Gadaffi" Greenwald quotes the abominable Hillary Clinton's yammerings about the need for support for the US-led mission of regime change in Libya: But the bottom line is, whose side are you on? Are you ...
  • Saturday Posting Duties
    Here's a tune: I've been busy over here.
  • Shorter TPS G20 Report ...
    "We were overwhelmed by the number of heads that threw themselves at our truncheons." Whatever. Jerks.
  • The Afghan Document Dump
    Big fucking deal. The Liberals and the harpercons (who both have blood on their hands) sat with some BQ dude who was sworn to secrecy, and filtered all the documents from Afghanistan to remove any incriminating evidence before passing what got through the filter to a bunch of judges who then rel ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • TSX-LSE merger killed following underwhelming ...
    A bid to merge the London and Toronto Stock Exchanges has been terminated after failing to secure the shareholder support it required to come to fruition.
  • Sun TV interview with Margie Gillis sets recor ...
    When Sun News' Krista Erickson interviewed dancer Margie Gillis about the money she has received from Canada the atmosphere was combative. The attack hasa record number of complaints by viewers to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.
  • Will humans come into contact with an alien ci ...
    Russian scientists believe that humanity will come into contact with an extraterrestrial civilization by the year 2031. Speaking at a conference, one Russian astronomer said it is inevitable that we contact aliens because many planets resemble ours.
  • Canada Post resumes delivery, what does that m ...
    Canada Post had their employees resuming their duties on Monday and Canadians should expect mail in their mailboxes today.
  • Philippine Officials Suggest 'Reformatting' Cr ...
    Left unsaid in his comments was how crime reporting is affecting the Philippine economy. But just the same, this lawmaker echoes a proposal by another colleague to reformat the news to attract tourists and encourage home visits.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • “Crown jewel” of Canadian peacekeeping closing ...
    The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) has announced that it is shutting down its operations in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia (David Pugliese, “Cash-strapped peacekeeping centre closing Nova Scotia office,” Ottawa Citizen, 10 June 2011). The organization is attempting to cut costs after having been adv ...
  • Layton, Harris criticize timing of document dump
    Opposition leader Jack Layton has accused the Harper government of taking a “very cynical” approach in its release of documents on the Afghan detainee file. The release of 4000 pages worth of documents came just as MPs are gearing down for summer recess. â[The Government] chose a date that will ...
  • Green Party’s Elizabeth May only dissenter to ...
    Elizabeth May stood alone in Parliament last week in opposing extension of the military mission in Libya, resulting in a vote of 294 in favour and 1 opposed (Jane Taber, Why Elizabeth May refuses to be a rubber stamp in the commons, Globe and Mail, 15 June 2011).  Defence Minister Peter MacKay a ...
  • Ceasefire.ca Members’ survey results on Libya ...
    I support Canada’s military mission in Libya and think it should be extended. (1806 responses)
  • Challenging Canada’s involvement in Libya: New ...
    As the House of Commons debated extending Canada’s military presence in Libya this week, the Rideau Institute garnered media attention by calling for clarity in the purpose and methods of the mission, and by providing an alternative estimate of the cost of the war that suggests the Conservative ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Apple Founder Steve Jobs Has 6 Weeks to Live?
    April 20th, 2011 The National Enquirer There’s been worldwide interest since we reported that Apple boss Steve Jobs – the mastermind behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad – could have only six weeks to live! Shocking photos obtained exclusively by The ENQUIRER show the 56-year-old cancer-stricken com ...
  • Plants ‘Can Think and Remember’
    April 20th, 2011 BBC News By: Victoria Gill Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems. These “electro-chemical signals” are carried by cells that act as “nerves” of the plants. In their experi ...
  • Chicken Samples Contaminated
    April 20th, 2011 AOL News By: Andrew Schneider This is a rough month for carnivores and others who like eating safe meat. Two studies, one released last week and the second made public today, have scientifically tested beef, chicken, pork and turkey purchased from groceries in six cities from Se ...
  • New Lawsuit Filed over GMO Alfalfa
    April 20th, 2011 SlashFood.com By: Jason Best The next skirmish over genetically modified foods is getting underway, pitting a coalition of environmental, consumer and food-safety groups against the federal government. Early this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved unrestricted pla ...
  • Wendy’s Natural Cut Fries Aren’t So Natural
    April 21st, 2011 OrganicAuthority.com By: Jill Ettinger Last fall, the fast-food chain Wendy’s introduced its Natural Cut Fries With Sea Salt, promoting them with ads pointing to the more natural look (they leave the potato skins on) and the better tasting product. But, as it turns out, the prod ...

Pambazuka News

  • Venezuela: The Afrovenezuelan Network and the ...
    From its foundation in 2000, the Afrovenezuelan Network had systematically denounced first the threat from Plan Colombia, and second the so called Plan Patriotic as a threat to the stability of the Andean region, this plan is based on military aims w...
  • Haiti: Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine petition
    As women and men in the Caribbean Region, in the wider diaspora, and in many parts of the world, we are writing to urge you to make resources available without delay for the search for Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, and to do everything in your power to se...
  • Haiti: Lula visit prompts protests in Brazil, ...
    Demonstrators in many Brazilian cities and San Francisco denounced Brazil's brutal 4-year military occupation of Haiti -- on the occasion of the May 28th visit to Haiti by Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva, marking the 4th anniversary of the arr...
  • Haiti: Women and girls require life-saving ass ...
    More than 800,000 people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in Haiti in the wake of hurricanes Fay and Gustav and tropical storm Hanna. Houses, medical facilities, main roads and bridges have been destroyed, and an estimated 100,000 people h...
  • USA: Uhuru movement endorses McKinney/Clemente ...
    The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) has endorsed the McKinney/Clemente ticket in the U.S. presidential race. The endorsement was based on the support that Green Party V.P. candidate Rosa Clemente’s expressed for InPDUM’s “Re...

War in Context

  • Fire on the Marmara
  • How Boeing ripped off American taxpayers
    The Project on Government Oversight reports: $644.75 for a small gear smaller than a dime that sells for $12.51: more than a 5,100 percent increase in price. $1,678.61 for another tiny part, also smaller than a dime, that could have been bought within DoD for $7.71: a 21,000 percent increase. $ ...
  • Getting on board with peace in Israel
    Hagit Borer writes: Later this month an American ship, the Audacity of Hope, will leave Greece on a journey to the Gaza Strip to attempt to break Israel’s blockade. It will join an expected nine other ships flying numerous flags and carrying hundreds of passengers from around the world. I will ...
  • A little house of secrets on the Great Plains
    Reuters reports: The secretive business havens of Cyprus and the Cayman Islands face a potent rival: Cheyenne, Wyoming. At a single address in this sleepy city of 60,000 people, more than 2,000 companies are registered. The building, 2710 Thomes Avenue, isn’t a shimmering skyscraper filled wit ...
  • The global debt? Give the big boys the bill
    Too Much, an online weekly publication of the Institute for Policy Studies, says: Sober central bankers the world over — and their political pals — have been hyperventilating the last few months about the debts of the world’s most notorious deadbeat nations. Over in Old Europe, we have Greece ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Paleopollen in Antarctica
    Fossilized pollen reveals climate history of northern Antarctica Analysis of direct climate record shows Antarctic tundra persisted until 12 million years ago HOUSTON — (June 27, 2011) — A painstaking examination of the first direct and detailed climate record from … Continue reading →
  • CAP and blunder – but Joe Romm is still ...
    From the Heartland Institute, they call out the Center for American Progress for posting falsehoods, but invite them to the conference anyway. Class act. Liberal Think Tankâs âPrebuttalâ Gets Facts Wrong About The Heartland Institute, Climate Conference Today at 2 … Continue reading →
  • Because being “green” is the first ...
    From Eurekalert, this inanity. What next, calls to reduce the beam power of NEXRAD weather radar systems so they are more “green”? I’m all for power efficiency in remote sensing, but leave it at that. Calling it “green” just sounds … Continue reading →
  • Mistaking Numerology for Math
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I always love seeing what Science magazine thinks is important. In their June 10th edition, in their “BY THE NUMBERS” section, they quote Nature Climate Change magazine, viz: 1,211,287  Square kilometers of ice road-accessible Arctic lands that … Continue reading →
  • Arlene – first tropical storm of the 201 ...
    First tropical storm of the 2011 Hurricane season, formed 28 days after the season started on June 1st. See it below. So far, rather disorganized. BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM ARLENE SPECIAL ADVISORY NUMBER   1 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL       AL012011 … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Compromising Morality… America’s Shame! by Phi ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad June 29, 2011 Let us imagine for a moment that you live in a country that has tremendous poverty combined with a great polarity between ‘haves and have nots ‘. In this country there are no laws to protect girls from being sold for money by t ...
  • Can Van Jones Galvanize us to Rebuild the Amer ...
    by Jill Dalton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad June 28, 2011 Van Jones is calling all people of conscience who care about America to get involved, stand up and help rebuild the American Dream. Thursday evening I attended the “Rebuild the Dream” event in New York City hosted by Van Jones, featuring ...
  • Hidden Holocaust, USA by Michael Parenti (1996)
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org June 28, 2011 Excerpted from Dirty Truths. “I’ve had grown men wet this floor with tears, begging for a job. We have to pray with some to keep them from killing themselves. So many say they just want to die,” says Charlie ...
  • Bernie Sanders: Shared Sacrifice
    Dandelion Salad SenatorSanders on Jun 27, 2011 As the debate over deficits ramped up in Washington on Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders laid out the compelling case not to slash programs for working families. Any deficit reduction package must rely on new revenue for at least half the reduction in red ...
  • Foriegn Aid and the Economic Crisis By Timothy ...
    By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com June 27, 2011 From The Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think-Tank: “Abstract: Since 2000 about 95 percent of U.N. member states that receive U.S. assistance have voted against the United States most of the time in th ...

Your New Reality

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    Warner Bros. Loses Millions On Harry Potter 5, Ninth Biggest Grossing Movie Of All Time...Somehow To the outside world, this is known as 'Hollywood Accounting', but when I was in LA in 2001 it was called FuckYou Accounting by independent producers. I'm guessing it still is : According to the (W ...
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    The Tsunami Is Here, But Don't Forget To Close Your Car Door When You Run What can you say while watching this video of the Japanese tsunami, shot from inside a car, except Holy Fucking Shit! Just extraordinary, in a world filled with cameras, we are seeing the reality of natural disasters like ...
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    JK Rowling Will Be First Author To Earn $1 Billion From E-Books By Darryl Mason UPDATE : Since the story below was posted, JK Rowling has held a press conference and announced the following : * She won't be writing an eighth Harry Potter novel, saying, "I do have closure with Harry. I have no ...
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    Almost 1 million views on YouTube in a handful of days for a professor explaining in two minutes some of the biggest problems with the American economy? Who said there isn't an audience for the truth?
  • No title
    Nice slideshow of 30 years of front covers from UK hard rock/metal magazine Kerrang! The early covers are better. December 1993 : April 1994 : The Rest Of The Kerrang! Front Covers Are Here

Wired - Science

  • Defeated Videogame-Violence Experts: Science W ...
    An analysis of competing videogame violence reports submitted to the Supreme Court found that researchers warning of links to real-world aggression had far stronger academic credentials than their opponents. Two groups of researchers submitted briefs to court, which on June 27 ruled unconstitut ...
  • Space Junk Scare Sends ISS Crew Scrambling
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK The astronauts inhabiting the International Space Station have been forced into evacuation pods after a bit of space junk floated worryingly close to the station. The six staff on the station climbed into the two Soyuz capsules docked on the ISS in case of just such a ...
  • Lady of the Rings: Chat With Saturn Surveyor C ...
    When Carolyn Porco started exploring the outer solar system, it was all about the rings. Her 1983 doctoral thesis at Caltech focused on shifting spokes in Saturn’s rings discovered by the Voyager spacecraft. As Voyager sailed past Uranus and Neptune, Porco led a group dedicated to their rings, ...
  • Taz Devil Genome Sequenced to Fight Contagious ...
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK American conservationists have sequenced the genome of the Tasmanian devil to help beat a vicious cancer that’s made the marsupial an endangered species. The toothy critter has been ravaged by Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD) for the past 15 years. The cancerous pox too ...
  • Eleven Animal Wonders of Evolution
    See Also: What’s Old Is New: 12 Living Fossils ‘Living Fossil’ Ant Species Dates to Late Cretaceous Repost: The Pelican’s Beak â Success and Evolutionary Stasis The Extreme Mammal Hall of Fame

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Mya Guarnieri: The blockade on Gaza began long ...
    The gradual closure of Gaza began in 1991, when Israel canceled the general exit permit that allowed most Palestinians to move freely through Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Since... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Israel fears Gaza flotilla activists may try t ...
    IOA Editor: The propaganda war intensifies. The latest from the people who killed 9 innocent passengers last year... "Senior Israeli officials receive information that activists are bringing... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • US Boat to Gaza responds to reports Israeli “l ...
    Passengers on the US Boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, said news reports that an Israeli “lawfare” group, Shurat HaDin, is behind the complaint delaying the departure of the US boat from Greece... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israel to stop Flotilla “with ...
    The Real News' Lia Tarachansky spoke with Israeli army spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Avital Liebovitz about the Israeli navy's intended response to the convoy. On Sunday, a convoy of activist... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Amira Hass: In preparation for Gaza flotilla, ...
    I take a look at the other people in the room and ask myself, "Why do they need this?" The oldest person planning to sail on the Canadian vessel is a 77-year-old American woman... There's also... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • FDA-Approved Diabetes Simulator Commercially A ...
    A computer-based diabetes simulation tool developed by University of Virginia researchers is now commercially available, thanks to a partnership with Charlottesville-based medical research firm The Epsilon Group. The protocol is approved by the FDA as an alternative to animal testing of Type 1 d ...
  • Landmark Editorial Denounces "Poor Publication ...
    A landmark editorial in the nation's leading spine journal is challenging the integrity of published industry-sponsored research involving a bone-growth product. The unusually blunt editorial notes that in 13 trials involving 780 patients, industry-funded researchers did not report a single adve ...
  • SBU Team Wins R&D 100 Award for Energy-Harvest ...
    A team at Stony Brook University has won a prestigious R&D 100 Award--dubbed the "Oscar of Invention"--for the development of an energy-harvesting shock absorber that converts vibration, bumps, and motion experienced by the suspension of a vehicle or train into electric power. The regenerative s ...
  • Commemorative Stamp Honors Anti-Racist Mark Tw ...
    In the wake of the unveiling of a commemorative stamp depicting Mark Twain, a Baylor University scholar says there was more to anti-racist Twain than most people know -- including a stint as a Confederate soldier.
  • Researchers Develop New Gene Therapy for Heart ...
    Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found in a Phase II trial that a gene therapy developed at Mount Sinai stabilized or improved cardiac function in people with severe heart failure. Patients receiving a high dose of the therapy, called SERCA2a, experienced substantial clinical b ...

Natural Health News

  • This Healthy Oil Helps Reduce Prostate Enlargement
    A study examined the effects of coconut oil on benign prostatic hyperplasia, uncontrolled growth of the prostate gland leading to difficulty with urination. Coconut oil is rich in fatty acids, mainly lauric and myristic acids, which have been shown to inhibit prostate 5a-reductase. The research ...
  • For Every Woman Who Benefits From Mammograms, ...
    There have been a variety of estimates of the benefits and harms of mammographic screening for breast cancer. �A study aimed to assess the effect of screening for breast cancer on mortality and morbidity. The researchers found that, while screening were likely to reduce breast cancer mortality, ...
  • Laughter Improves Your Immune System
    A study has shown that laughter up-regulates the genes related to Natural Killer immune cell activity in diabetes. For the study, on one day the patients watched a comic video. On another day, they participated in an inpatient diabetes educational program. �Blood samples were collected before a ...
  • This Food Works Better than Drugs for Bowel Di ...
    A study assessed the probiotic bacteria Mesalazine and Lactobacillus casei to see how effective they were at maintaining long-term remission of symptomatic uncomplicated diverticular disease of the colon. Seventy one patients completed the study, of whom sixty six were symptom-free after the 24 ...
  • This Spice Works as Well as Drugs for Alzheimer's
    There is increasing evidence to suggest that saffron may be an effective means of managing Alzheimer's disease.� A study found that saffron had an effect similar to the drug donepezil in the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's after 22 weeks -- and had fewer side effects. Another study fo ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Today: Peter Spiro Testifies before the SFRC o ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Just a quick note for folks following the Congressional wrangling over U.S. military activity in Libya and the War Powers Resolution:  later this morning, Opinio Juris‘ own Peter Spiro will be testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. U.S. St ...
  • NMT Book Published!
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce the publication of my book “The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law.”  The book can be ordered from Oxford University Press here; Amazon should have it (at a whopping $8.78 discount) in ...
  • The CMCR Invents the “War Crime” of Material S ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Earlier today, the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) held in U.S. v. Hamdan that material support for terrorism is a war crime and thus within the jurisdiction of the military commissions.  The decision represents the apotheosis of the US ...
  • New Rules for Cyberwar?
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis More than a decade ago, the U.S. Defense Department’s Office of General Counsel (DoD OGC) released a detailed analysis of the way international law would operate to guide U.S. military activity in cyberspace.  It was an impressive effort and is still worth r ...
  • O’Connell on Defining “Hostilities”
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford My future Notre Dame colleague Mary Ellen O’Connell joins the fray criticizing Harold Koh’s crabbed definition of hostilities. Here’s a taste: Harold Koh, legal adviser to the U.S. State Department, attempted to convince Congress on June 15 that the “limited ...

Public News Service

  • ACLU Report: AZ Police Often Too Quick to Use ...
    ACLU Report: AZ Police Often Too Quick to Use Tasers Phoenix, AZ – A study of 20 Arizona police agencies shows a lack of uniform policies and training on the appropriate use of Tasers, according to ACLU of Arizona. The study shows that equipping officers with Tasers does not appear to have reduc ...
  • HIV Testing Day Aims for Prevention, Treatment ...
    HIV Testing Day Aims for Prevention, Treatment and Longer Lives Phoenix, AZ – Today (Monday) is National HIV Testing Day. Knowing your HIV status can lead to a longer, healthier life and prevent others from becoming infected. Comments from Dr. DeShawn Taylor, medical director, Planned Parenthood ...
  • Media Watchdog says AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Could ...
    Media Watchdog says AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Could Hurt AZ Minorities Phoenix, AZ – A national media watchdog group is raising concerns over the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, warning it could stifle competition, with higher rates impacting consumers in general, and minorities in particular. ...
  • FCC Report: Broadband Needs Bigger Boost in Ru ...
    FCC Report: Broadband Needs Bigger Boost in Rural AZ Phoenix, AZ - In its annual checkup of the deployment of broadband across the nation, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says despite progress, more needs to be done to get 26 million Americans, mostly in rural communities, access to ...
  • La cancelación de reclamos mineros en el ...
    La cancelación de reclamos mineros en el Gran Cañón, extendida hasta diciembre Grand Canyon, AZ – Una cancelación de concesión temporal para nuevos reclamos mineros de uranio cerca del Parque Nacional del Gran Cañón, ha sido extendida seis meses más. El Secretario del Interior Ken Salazar dice q ...

Center for Food Safety

  • U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
    Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...
  • CA GE Fish Labeling Bill Held
    Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) was informed by Assemblymember Huffman’s office that they have decided to hold AB 88—the California bill which would require that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—as a 2-year bill. This means it w ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • A Memo For Zionists
    A Memo For Zionists: To: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu From: Jackie Muhammad Re: Your Washington, D.C. Meeting With President Obama (FinalCall.com) - Twenty seven years ago the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said, “Now that nation called Israel never has had any peace in 40 years and y ...
  • Is Greece Being Blackmailed to Put the Brakes ...
    Is Greece Being Blackmailed to Put the Brakes on Gaza Flotilla? | Common Dreams by Medea Benjamin The 50 passengers and crew on the U.S. boat to Gaza have converged in Athens, Greece, ready to head out to sea to join an international fleet of ships that will challenge the Israeli-imposed naval ...
  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada: #442
    Invasive surveillance bills will cost Canadians in cash and civil liberties, says new coalition | rabble.ca Proposed "Lawful Access" bills would require telecom providers in Canada to hand over personal information to authorities without a warrant or judicial oversight, says OpenMedia.ca. The bi ...
  • Four Decades of Cruelty and Inhumanity to U.S. ...
    Four Decades of Cruelty and Inhumanity to U.S. Political Prisoners | Black Agenda Report For almost 40 years, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace have been in solitary confinement at Louisiana’s infamous Angola State Prison, in what is thought to be the longest period of enforced solitude in A ...
  • WHO’S SAILING TO GAZA AND WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO ...
    WHO’S SAILING TO GAZA AND WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO SAY? � Desertpeace: The passengers who will be on the U.S. boat, from 14 states and the District of Columbia, represent virtually every geographic region of the United States. Fifty eight percent women and 42% men, they are of all ages, and a variet ...

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Green Times

  • You and yourself
      Just like your body, your soul needs to be fed. You can train your mind and cultivate an calm state internal just by practicing some activities like yoga, martial arts or just by doing a retreat in an amazingly wild environment. Moreover, meditation (lifestyle/meditation.html ) develops hu ...
  • Give Earth a Hand
    Watch. Be Aware. And Lend a Hand. Such a beautiful illustration of what many hands can do – and NO WORK involved! :) Watch. Be Aware. And Lend a Hand. In order to ensure environmental preservation, check out the Non Profit Organisations in the Green Times Business Directory.
  • Environmental News 24/06/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Fish your life
      Eating fish is healthy and tasty. Enriched with omega-3 and phosphorus it allows you to develop your brain abilities, keep your heart healthy, have a lower cholesterol rate, and improve your mood. But to keep eating healthy fish, don't forget to preserve our environment (climate-change/envir ...
  • Project Eden – and the return of the Chuditch
    Many Australians have never heard of a chuditch (Dasyurus geoffroii) – also known as the western quoll – let alone had the opportunity to see …

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Susya Creative and Learning Center: 1st Annive ...
    On Saturday, May 28th, 2011, a celebration was held at the Palestinian village of Susya to mark the frist anniversary of the Susya Creative and Learning Center’s activity. Four hundred guests took part in the festivities – half of them Palestinians from Susya and the area, and the others – Israe ...
  • A bad day for Israeli democracy
    Coalition of Women for Peace, whose campaign we have featured before on this site, have a new video, and sadly, a new update on the progress of the “Boycott Bill” working its way through the Israeli Knesset. H/t to ACRI for the blog title, it came from the subject line of their email alerting us ...
  • Schivone: A Moment Before Boarding the Next Fl ...
    Crossposted from Ha’aretz A moment before boarding the next flotilla Iâd rather use my influence and power, in concert with other members of American civil society, to actively and nonviolently resist policies I consider abominable. By Gabriel Matthew Schivone You might wonder what would ...
  • Bil’in VIllagers to move the wall themselves
    After the Israeli military finally began to move the wall after a Supreme Court decision and 2 years of protest, the village of Bil’in will take matters into their own hands again tomorrow. Popular Struggle has the information on the protest here. Bil’in Demonstrators to Take Down the Wall ...
  • Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2 getting ready to sail
    Here’s a video of two of the activists aboard, courtesy of Democracy Now! The Only Democracy? will bring you posts from Gabe Schivone, a Jewish Voice for Peace member aboard the “Audacity of Hope.” Here he is being interviewed by the Arizona Republic about his globe-spanning border activism. A ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • 1000 millisievert water leaking from Fukushima
    Full body radiation checks begin across prefecture while TEPCO, as always, says everything is fine, just fine Meanwhile, in the US, authorities assure us there is no cause for alarm at the flooded nuclear plant in Nebraska, the fire-threatened Los Alamos laboratory, or at the Salem 2 nuclear pla ...
  • The Data Liberation Front announces Google Takeout
    Google Takeout(download all your Gooogle data)
  • The Eurozone bankster shell game explained
    That Greeks are massively against being “bailed out” in a circular process whereby Europe’s bankers rescue Europe’s bankers, using Athens as an intermediary is no surprise.
  • Obama administration wants 56 MPG standard by 2025
    A laudable idea, but how will this be accomplished? Electric vehicles are about the only way but doing this will require a huge amount of new electrical power, presumably all of it renewable and clean. And we are nowhere near generating the amount of power that will be needed for a transportatio ...
  • Jimmy Cliff. We Don’t Want Another Vietnam in ...
    Glastonbury 2011. This is amazing and inspiring. Thank you Jimmy. Lyrics Hey, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Afghanistan, Afghanistan Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Yesterday I got a letter from my friend fighting in Afghanistan And this is what he had to say “Tell all my friends that I’ll be c ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

Deadline Live

  • What? Lennon was a closet Republican: Handler ...
    Toronto Sun John Lennon was a closet Republican, who felt a little embarrassed by his former radicalism, at the time of his death – according to the tragic Beatles star’s last personal assistant. Fred Seaman worked alongside the music legend from 1979 to Lennon’s death at the end of 1980 and he ...
  • The Federal Reserve Is Why You Can’t Aff ...
    Gary Gibson Via Silver Bear Cafe The Federal Reserve is supposed to promote full employment and stable prices, yet its actions cause jobs to disappear and prices to rise. This should come as no big surprise, at least it shouldn’t if you’re not inclined to think government intervention is either ...
  • Ryan Jones: Lupe Fiasco, Hip-Hop, and Libertar ...
    By Ryan Jones Hip Hop Republican The rapper Lupe Fiasco, recently set the normally Pro-Obama hip hop world on fire with his recent comments labeling President Obama a “Terrorist.” “In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. For me, I’m t ...
  • Snipes In Jail, Corporations Evade Taxes Legally
    MSNBC host Cenk Uygur speaks with Jesse Drucker of Bloomberg News on how corporations legally evade taxes at the cost of American taxpayers.
  • TSA is A Joke says Former Head of Israeli Airp ...

The Air Vent

  • Skeptics are the Educated
    An interesting post at Judith Curry’s blog links to a paper by Dan Kahan and an article at DeSmog blog.   Sadly, skeptics actually are rational people, who actually understand science.  What’s worse, the more people understand, the more likely they are to be skeptical!  Apparently the reader ...
  • Roy Spencer, Missing Heat
    This is a very interesting post by Dr. Roy Spencer on the failure of the ocean to warm according to models, more misleading by the IPCC of that failure, and a simple powerful demonstration which shows where models likely go wrong. It definitely deserves more attention. The result – a greatly red ...
  • What I learned
    I doubt I will spend much time on this paper life is short and you have to pick and chose what you will spend your time on.  The thing is complete bunk in my opinion and I can’t believe it was published, but that is what some of the dark corners of climatology bring us [...]
  • Silly Money, Green Stew
    The mindless will do anything to go green.  It doesn’t matter one bit how little financial sense it makes.  It doesn’t matter that peoples lives are destroyed, its for the better, because they say it is.  The article linked is actually about destroying farmers in favor of disrupting birds, bu ...
  • The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
    Lubos Motl has an interesting and well written post on the recent supreme court CO2 decision.  He looks at it from the angle of how a government should function and the constant pressures faced to hold the outside influence of groups with an agenda  from corrupting it to a narrow minded advantage.

Focal Point

  • Thankfully, Self-Immolater Thomas Ball Didn't ...
    Immolating yourself on the courthouse steps to underscore your belief that you were wrongfully separated from your wife and denied custody of your children is the ultimate self-refutation. Especially if your posthumously published terrorist manifesto incites others to torch police stations and ...
  • Photos of Historic NYC Pride March
    The 31st annual New York City Pride March was held just two days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill making New York the sixth and largest state to achieve equal marriage. The firs marriage licenses for same-sex couples will be available on July 24. Sex advice columnist Dan Savage and husban ...
  • New York Gay Rights Disco Rock Mash-Up
    Last night, an equal marriage bill passed the New York State Senate and was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. New York has become the sixth, and largest, state to achieve equal marriage. This is the first time in U.S. history that equal marriage has been ratified by a Republican-contro ...
  • Jack Shafer, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Terrible ...
    In his recent essay, "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant," star reporter Jose Antonio Vargas recalls being sent to the U.S. at the age of 12 to live with his grandparents, naturalized American citizens. He says he thought he was a legal immigrant until the DMV rejected his application for a ...
  • The Twisted Logic of the John Edwards Prosecution
    If the prosecution of John Edwards for campaign finance violations were to succeed, it would set a bizarre precedent. [Photo credit: IowaPolitics.com, Creative Commons.]Read More

Inside Facebook

  • DLA Piper Stops Representing Paul Ceglia in Co ...
    Paul Ceglia’s claims to a serious ownership share in Facebook had looked intriguing when they first surfaced last summer — and even more so this year, when international law firm DLA Piper agreed to back him up after doing “weeks” of due diligence. But following waves of attacks by Facebook on h ...
  • As Demand for Facebook Credits Increases, Micr ...
    Ifeelgoods, a company that lets businesses offer Facebook Credits as rewards for purchases and signups, today announced the closing of a $6.5 million Series A funding round led by Idinvest. As Facebook Credits become the sole payment option on the Facebook Platform this Friday, and more types of ...
  • How to Get Facebook Users to Like Your Page: T ...
    Managed correctly, your Facebook Page can quickly become your company’s second home on the web, both in how well it ranks on Google and the frequency with which it is visited by your customers and audience. Because your customers are already on Facebook (spending on average  25-30 minutes each d ...
  • HP Preps Facebook App for Its Palm WebOS Touch ...
    HP will release its TouchPad tablet next week, and the Palm WebOS-running device will have its own quasi-official Facebook app, according to TechCrunch. Unlike the Facebook for iPhone and Android apps which Facebook develops internally, the app is being developed by HP’s team, and it will be th ...
  • Just Bieber, “Harry Potter,” CNN, American Exp ...
    Musicians, TV shows and movies made up the bulk of the Pages on our list of the top 20 growing by Likes this week. Facebook, YouTube, Cristiano Ronaldo and American Express also made the list, although it’s interesting to note that most of the TV Pages were not associated with traditional broadc ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • A "responsible end" in Afghanistan?
    As the USA begins its gradual troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Lawrence Davidson reflects on how the failure to learn the lessons of history, and an absence of executive and legislative accountability rooted in the American public's disinterest in politics and foreign policy, have led to more ...
  • The great bank giveaway bribe: Britain’s deput ...
    Christopher King condemns UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s proposal to give away nationalized bank shares for free and argues that the two banks in question, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds, "should form the core of a new mutually-owned banking system designed to support British domes ...
  • Israel's contempt for Law of the Seas - and EU ...
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the European Union's willful failure to protect the citizens of its member states in the face of Israel's explicit threat to murder humanitarian workers planning to take part in the upcoming aid flotilla to Gaza.
  • Archbishop of Canterbury reprimanded by angry ...
    Stuart Littlewood views Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams's failure to acknowledge the role played by Israel's occupation in the haemorrhaging of Christian populations from the Holy Land and recalls previous occasions where the archbishop behaved as if he were "a closet Zionist like so man ...
  • The Palestinian Authority’s historic mistake - ...
    Jeff Halper calls on Palestinian Authority leaders, foremost Mahmoud Abbas, to honour their historic national responsibility, mobilize the immense resources of Palestinian and world civil society and push for UN recognition of Palestinian independence in September "as the head of a national unit ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 billion) in pote ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 billion) in pote ...
  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Exposing the Official 1980s “Narrative” on the ...
    Paul Fitzgerald & Elizabeth Gould expose the official 1980s “narrative” on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as propaganda created by the MSM to build support for Charlie Wilson’s War Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team, began their experience in Afghanistan when they w ...
  • Once Upon A Time US Government Whistleblowers…
    Steve Kohn of National Whistleblowers Center offers an alternative to ignoring and intimidating whistle-blowers Last week the New York Times published a very well-written editorial piece written by Steve Kohn on the need to protectgovernment whistleblowers: Today, the Obama administration is agg ...
  • The EyeOpener: Secret FBI Storage Drive to Shi ...
    J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghost Still Lingers over the FBI Welcome. This is our EyeOpener Video Report by James Corbett for BoilingFrogsPost.com. A recent court case in Utah has uncovered yet more evidence that the FBI is hiding key documents from the public by placing them in a separate, hitherto unkno ...
  • Podcast Show #47
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Lew Rockwell Lew Rockwell, founder and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, joins us to discuss the constitutional rule and the roll back of our liberties and constitutional rights during the past decade, the rise of the police state, the PATRIOT ACT and our tyr ...

Afro Spear

  • A Sunday Sermon
  • sat’day riddymz
    WOW!! It’s hard to fathom that it’s been 2 years ago today already that MJ died. I for one have come to appreciate his music more and more.
  • Voodoo and Vaccines in Benin, Africa
    One.org: Save 4 million children’s lives in 5 years
  • Father’s Day Medley
    1. Far Better Men Than I: My Vision for My Sons  2. My Contribution to Society 3. We Were Once Kings 4. Sunday Chat with Dad 5. Call to Fatherhood 6. Rebirth of a Cool Dad 7. The Trials of Single Fatherhood
  • Report from Detroit for AfroSpear: Porn Shows ...
    “Democracy is a proposal (rarely realised) about decision-making; it has little to do with election campaigns. Its promise is that political decisions be made after, and in the light of, consultation with the governed. This is dependent upon the governed being adequately informed about the issue ...

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

  • FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
    by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
  • My Predicament
    For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
  • High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
    O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]
  • CHANGING SERVERS: EYEONCITRUS.COM
    EYEONCITRUS.COM IS CHANGING SERVERS AND MAY BE DOWN FOR UP TO 48 HOURS, PLEASE KEEP CHECKING, WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
  • Pentagon Whistleblower Franz Gayl Saved Our Tr ...
    For virtually his entire adult life, Franz Gayl has served his country. Enlisting in the United States Marine Corps from an early age, he moved over to become a civilian Science and Technology Advisor at the Pentagon after retiring from his position as officer. While he was deployed in Iraq, Mr. ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
    In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
  • Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
    JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...
  • I’m On The Run
    Actually I’m not. It would have been quite exciting to have been writing a blog from an internet cafe somewhere, or hijacking a wireless connection outside an office building, but it seems I am safe and snug in my home completely bereft of law enforcement officers hammering at my door demanding ...
  • Everyone Must Follow The Rules (Apart From Tho ...
    Enjoy the moment – the personification of Evil is dead. Take to the streets and express your sheer joy at the end of a symbol. Paint your banners and hold them high; unfurl your flags and wave them in the night sky; don your army surplus trousers and bare your chests: we have a winner [...]
  • Scholastic U-Turn On Coal: Shame About Their O ...
    Well, that didn’t last long. From the first outrage to a “Move along, nothing to see here!” clean up of the website, Scholastic seem to have recovered relatively easily from what they claim was just a mistake. When Scholastic published a set of four worksheets and a printable map (see here for a ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • MIT Lesson: Change Happens Everywhere; Activis ...
    I attended last Thursday's afternoon plenary "Civic Media Mobilization," at the 2011 Knight Civic Media conference, expecting to hear discussion about specific activist technologies and techniques. I was also anticipating some juicy political friction between the Tea Party consultant and the imm ...
  • TileMill Opens Up a World of Mapping Possibili ...
    One of our favorite collaborative open data projects is OpenStreetMap. We've talked before about the project's goals, how its free and open nature is advantageous for non-profit and commercial applications alike, and how its open and near-real-time editing process is a major advantage in rapidly ...
  • Knight Announces 2011 News Challenge Winners
    Not so long ago, journalists were playing catch-up in the digital media space. But at this year's MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, it's become evident that journalism 2.0 is growing up. Alberto Ibargüen, CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, today announced the winners of the K ...
  • Find the 'Big Carrot' in Your Mobile App
    In the past, I've talked about some of the nuances in creating a location-based mobile app. Now I'd like to share some techniques for how we decided what to include in version 1 of the CityCircles mobile app, and how we accomplished what we did, to help you narrow your focus for any future apps ...
  • Dotspotting Launches to Help People Gather Dat ...
    Dotspotting.org is officially live, at long last! The project, which aims to make tools to help people gather data about cities and make that data more legible, has been in a partially completed stage for a few months now, and I've blogged about it before. We've got a few new things to announ ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Terrorism - The Growing Al-Qaeda Cresc ...
    The key battle with al-Qaeda in Yemen is in the countryside, where the U.S. government is paying too little attention.The June 22 jailbreak of dozens of al-Qaeda-linked prisoners in southern Yemen's Hadramawt province is the latest evidence that the main battle with the group has been taking pla ...
  • Second Flotilla - Don't Be Fooled by the Next ...
    We're on the verge of another "flotilla" to Gaza. Estimates of the number of ships and participants vary from day to day, tending downward, but the erstwhile organizers insist that the maritime operation will take place.Their spokesmen have been hyperactive in drawing attention to the event. Aft ...
  • Book Review - The Greater Journey: Americans i ...
    The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. David McCullough. Simon & Schuster. 2011. 576 pages.The Greater Journey is a masterful exploration of the experiences of Americans in Paris in between the 1830s and the end of the nineteenth century. Some, like Harriet Beecher Stowe, only came for a few m ...
  • Political Scandals - Sex, Lies, and Twitter
    What is it that makes us all think we can get away with it? And by all, I mean men. It seems that across the board, and irrespective of political affiliation, men have failed at exhibiting the better part of valor when it comes to sex. The recent and devastating implosions of once powerful men, ...
  • The Gun Trade - Badly Flawed Background Check ...
    Like many states, Maine depends on the FBI to conduct background checks of people who want to acquire firearms from the state’s federally licensed gun dealers.And like many states, Maine is a slacker in supplying the records that the FBI depends on to run those checks.That’s how Raymond Geisel g ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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  • Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...
    By William HicksContinuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
  • Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...
    By Barry GreyUS payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
  • A State For Jews
    By William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
  • Israelis Rush For Second Passports
    By Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...

Yid With Lid

  • Are Jewish Democrats Beginning to Say No To Ob ...
    It seems as if everything is finally beginning to add up. According to several dozen interviews conducted by Politico, Americans of the Jewish faith are finally waking up to the fact that Barack Obama is not a friend of Israel. And the best efforts of Democratic spin-masters isn't going to chang ...
  • Petraeus Replacement Testifies: Obama's Afghan ...
    Yesterday Marine Lt. Gen. John Allen, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The General has been nominated to replace Gen. David Petraeus as head of coalition forces in Afghanistan. As part of his testimony the General was grilled by Senator John McCain and Senator Lindsey G ...
  • Why Is the US Sending Money To China To Help I ...
    What's $100 million between friends?� Over the past decade the Environmental Protection agency has given $100 Million dollars to foreign governments and organizations to help them solve their environmental problems.� While the program began under the Bush administration, like all kinds ...
  • "Big NY Times Scoop”: Israel Claims Media Cov ...
    � by Barry Rubin Sometimes when one of the better reporters around tries to be fair the result shows up the low quality of Middle East coverage generally. In an article on the Gaza Strip, Israeli policy, and the flotilla of anti-Israel, pro-Hamas activists, the New York Times informs us ...
  • Obama Administration "Rewards" Project Gunrunn ...
    Here's another chapter in the "you don't piss off President Obama" guide book. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) is trying to fire an agent who helped publicize the agency�s role in "Project Gunrunner"� (A.K.A Fast and Furious) which allowed thousands of guns to cross the U.S ...

The Real Agenda

  • Do you need a pesticide? Try Canola Oil
    And if Canola Oil is not your thing, how about Soybean Oil? NaturalNews.com June 29, 2011 In a shocking new video, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) reveals that common cooking oils such as canola oil and soybean oil are used as key active ingredients in pesticide products because they work so effe ...
  • Operadores de Escáneres en Aeropuertos Sufren ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 28 de junio 2011 Ha tomado solamente unos pocos años para que las consecuencias de la continua exposición a la radiación de los escáneres se manifieste. Los operadores de escáner a los cuales muchos pasajeros están sujetos antes de abordar un avión descubriero ...
  • Greek Parliament approves Austerity Package
    While the Greek government surrendered to the IMF and World Bank demands for more spending cuts, the streets of Athens saw an increase in protests with thousands of citizens taking on police. Associated Press June 29, 2011 Greece’s lawmakers approved a key austerity bill Wednesday needed to aver ...
  • Obama Administration: Don’t Need no Stin ...
    While the current US president seems to have forgotten what law he must obey, and as US and NATO bomb Tripoli, Obama says such military action does not qualify as hostilities. The administration also lies about the “no troops on the ground” claim. Intelligence shows US special operations troops ...
  • Greeks Enraged as the Parliament is set to app ...
    Thousands of Greeks arrive at the Parliament’s building to press their representatives to reject the new austerity package. Reuters June 28, 2011 Anti-austerity protests turned violent in Athens on Tuesday as the European Union warned Greek lawmakers the country faces immediate default unless th ...

Wind Watch

  • Blow for wind farms as senators push probe int ...
    Urgent research should be undertaken into the potentially damaging health effects of wind farms on nearby residents, says a landmark Senate report released yesterday. In a dramatic win for residents’ groups who have raised widespread concerns about the impact of wind farms on rural communities, ...
  • Pendleton asked to create wind energy ordinanc ...
    FRANKLIN, W.Va. � Once again, the Allegheny Highlands is gearing up to debate the merits of commercial wind energy � this time for a project on Shenandoah Mountain. Solaya Energy LLC has been monitoring wind resources along a five-mile stretch of the ridgeline there to determine whether it�s a g ...
  • Court blocks $175m wind farm project
    The $175m proposed Allendale East wind farm near Mount Gambier has collapsed following an adjoining landowner winning an appeal against the 46-turbine project. The landmark ruling is believed to be the first time a court has upheld an appeal against wind farms based on visual amenity. The decisi ...
  • Whitley Co. wind turbine controversy; Family s ...
    Whitley County Commissioners are still working on drafting an ordinance for wind turbines. Wind Capital Group hopes the county will house the turbines, but not everyone’s convinced it’s a good idea. A group called Whitley County Concerned Citizens invited David and Stephanie Hulthen to speak at ...
  • Legislation puts wind decisions in Albany
    If proposed state legislation is approved today, the siting of wind power projects in the north country will be decided by a committee in Albany, not local planning boards. State and local wind power proponents have supported Article X in the past, saying that it limits to one year how long the ...

Not My Tribe

  • IDF’s Old Testament Anarchist Bible: sul ...
    FOR HOW-TO FANS: Israel’s IDF says sulfur can be poured unto its soldiers to immobilize them, even used “to light them up like human torches” supposedly. Uh, sounds promising. References please? The Old Testament of course, nothing less than the old fire and brimstone, I kid you not. The IDF is ...
  • The least of teargas effects are tears
    Teargas has become a misnomer of course.What’s being used so liberally to suppress demonstrations, to be graphically specific, is vomit-inducing PUKE-GAS. It’s a nausea agent, a respiratory inhibitor, and except when used by the paramilitary police-state, “teargas” is prohibited chemical warfare.
  • Press intimidation, frivolous lawfare, and sab ...
    You’re looking at an underwater photo of the starboard propeller of the passenger ship “Juliano” berthed in Piraeus, Greece, waiting to sail with the “Stay Human” Freedom Flotilla II departing soon to break the siege of Gaza. Reports of sabotage babelfished, even as some flotilla participants qu ...
  • If Michele Dumber-than-Bush Bachmann can run f ...
    How fortunate that the corporate media is pretending a Michele Bachmann presidential candidacy has legitimacy. Who’s going to dispute your prospects? Yes, YOU, I don’t care who you are. Or what about …ANY third party contender? A truly unelectable Republican will not be bogeyman enough to circle ...
  • PICS French Dignite El Karameh first of Gaza F ...
    French humanitarian activists aboard LE DIGNITÃ-EL KARAMEH left Corisca today, bound for Greece, where they will join compatriot sloop LOUISE MICHEL and the Freedom Flotilla II codenamed “Stay Human” which includes two cargo ships carrying aid to besieged Gaza. The departures of the US AUDACITY ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • JFK 1991 - Jim Garrison's Closing Argument
    Nothing has changed. The JFK assassination, like other exposed Government conspiracies, has two aspects to it that should (but doesn't) wake up even the most hardcore cool-aid drinkers. The first is the highly improbable and/or physical impossibility of the official story while the second i ...
  • RIBA, AIA and Aaronovitch attack Gage
    It seems the heads of the Britain and America's top architectural organizations are annoyed that Gage got to talk at the Royal Institute of British Architects, accusing him of using RIBA's name to give credibility to a 'bonkers' conspiracy theory. The Randi-crowd are of course using this fact to ...
  • A Peer-Reviewed Deception
    It's been ages since I last made one of my trademark compilation videos. Work and shit has been getting in the way. For months I was working on a video that was kind of a general scientific truth video that had a section on 9/11 forensics, a section on climate change, a section on vaccines, a ...
  • It Ain't No White Paper Because It's Been Debu ...
    In a post entitled "Hell No I Ain't Reading No White Paper!," James Bennett of the Screw Loose Change blog writes: Most of this interview that Richard Gage does for Skeptical Inquirer magazine isn't that interesting, and good deal is completely unintelligible, but I found the bit in the middle ...
  • Debunking Jonathan Kay, his book Among the Tru ...
    Updated 6-16-11 Thanks to James Hufferd of 911grassroots.org for assisting me with some research for this article. James recently responded to Kay's book, to which Kay retorted, and this is my end-all be-all response to Kay. In Frank Moher's review of National Post writer Jonathan Kay's new ...

Fooducate

  • Over 25% of Our Daily Calories Come from Snacks
    This is not surprising. The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) released a report last week depicting America’s snacking habits. Between 1977 and 2006, snacking in the American diet has grown to constitute “a full eating event,” or a fourth meal, averaging about 580 calories each day, said Ric ...
  • Fooducate iPhone App v 1.6: Browse Top Rating ...
    Weâve just released version 1.4 of the Fooducate iPhone App, and weâre really excited. Most of the features here are based on your requests: Browse products by category – you can now browse for products by categories (cereal, yogurt, pickles, etc..). Tap “browse” at the bottom of the scan screen ...
  • Jack in the Box Drops Toys from Kiddie Menu
    Something good is happening in the fast food industry. (That doesn’t happen very often, as followers of the Fooducate blog know.) Jack in the Box, the 5th largest burger chain in the country, announced that it has stopped packing toys with their kiddie meals. What you need to know: If you recall ...
  • If Milk is White, Why is Cheese Yellow?
    Teri, a Fooducate community member asks “After reading your latest post on cheese, I got to thinking. What about the stuff we can see. Like why is cheese yellow? Is it dye that is bad for you? I’d love to know.” What you need to know: Milk is not pure white. It actually contains a [...]
  • Coffee Explained [Useful Infographic]
    For caffeine addicts who want to know what goes in their cuppa joe. [h/t to Tristan] Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate

Traffikd

  • Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
    Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
  • 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
    As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.

Survival International

  • Bushmen boycott census
    Bushman, Molathwe Mokalake in the New Xade, Botswana. © Dominick Tyler/Survival Bushmen in Botswana have announced plans to boycott the national census in protest against the governmentâs refusal to provide them with a polling station during the last elections. More than 400 Bushman were ...
  • Sonia Gandhi stands up for endangered Andaman ...
    Jarawa woman returning to her forest after gathering food on the edges of the Jarawa reserve. © Survival Sonia Gandhi, President of India’s ruling Congress party, has strongly backed the right of the isolated Jarawa tribe not to be forced into the ‘mainstream’. Mrs Gandhi, named by Forbes ...
  • Epidemic strikes Amazon nomads
    Nukak woman in refugee camp near San José, Colombia. © David Hill/Survival An outbreak of respiratory disease has struck one of the Amazon’s last nomadic tribes â whose numbers have already been decimated by flu and malaria. Around 35 Nukak-Maku, including nine children, have been admitt ...
  • Brazil confirms existence of uncontacted tribe
    Uncontacted Amazon Indians, Javari Valley, Brazil © Peetsa/Arquivo CGIIRC-Funai The Brazilian authorities have confirmed the existence of a group of approximately 200 uncontacted Indians in the Amazon. An overflight carried out by the government’s Indian Affairs Department, FUNAI, has ...
  • Diaries expose missionaries’ ‘spiritual war’ o ...
    Suruwaha man and children © Survival Diary entries obtained by Survival International illustrate the historic attempt of two missionaries to contact isolated Indians in the Brazilian Amazon. The missionaries, working with the American fundamentalist missionary organization JOCUM (Jovens co ...

Greg Palast

  • Ce soir ! Achtung! BP en eaux troubles + Die B ...
    Tonight! 28 June. On ARTE, in French and German — in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Holland and (check listing for French Canada) … BP: In Deep Water — The first of Greg Palast’s investigative reports on BP, the Bribery & Pollution company masquerading as an oil company. La M ...
  • Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa
    by Greg Palast for The Guardian Now that I've dispensed with the obvious and obnoxious teaser headline, let's drop the towel and expose Dominique Strauss-Kahn's history of arrogant abuse. The truth is, the grandee of the IMF has molested Africans for years. On Wednesday, the New York Times r ...
  • So, Osama walks into this bar...
    by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse: just so we don't forget... So, Osama walks into this bar, see? And Bush says, “Whad’l’ya have, pardner?” and Osama says... ...But wait a minute. I’d better shut my mouth. The sign here in the airport says, “Security is no joking matter.” But if security’ ...
  • BP's Secret Deepwater Blowout
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash Greg Palast investigating BP's blowout in the Caspian, Baku, Azerbaijan 2010. Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP deepwater oil platform also blew out. You've heard and se ...
  • BP In Deep Water: The Making Of the Channel 4 ...
    FEATURES For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP's trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his world-wide investigation of the oil giant. (Broadcast tonight, 8pm. UK only.) One year after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig blew apart and spewed 170 ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle personalised weddin ...
    We’ve had an email from Rosey: We just got married (yay!) and while we tried to keep the waste to a minimum, we have ended up with about 100 personalised wedding cake boxes leftover. Not sure how that happened! They’re just card but I’d like to reuse them anyway but didn’t know what to do [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle a chicken carcass a ...
    We’ve started getting a meat box delivery from Swillington Farm – a local organic farm. All the meat is organic, the animals have been treated well during their lives and the food miles are very low — in fact for the chicken we had over the weekend, the only food miles were the ones delivering [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle big plastic (animal ...
    Over on the Suggest an Item page, Emily asked: Would anybody have any ideas for reusing the bags that stock feed comes in? They are some sort of plastic and not recycleable. Funnily enough, I had this on my to-do list already as I’m starting to be overrun with the things too – and I’ve [...]
  • Advice for arguing against plastic credit-type ...
    I’m possibly a bit late with this now (sorry Su!) but I just spotted this question and wondered if anyone had any advice/info/suggestions for further research. Good friend of Recycle This and The Really Good Life Su asked: Next week I am at a conference all week. One of the motions for discussio ...
  • Reusing, recycling and upcycling links – ...
    It’s been a while since I’ve featured some of the wonderful reusing, recycling and upcycling links I’ve spotted recently. So, without further ado…: Drinks can pop top lampshade I love this lampshade made with drinks can pop tops – it’s like modern chainmail :) Drinks can bottoms necklace The oth ...

Age of Autism

  • Autism Linked to IT Regions?
    By Dr Lorene Amet DEA, DipBiotechnol, D Phil, MEd Simon Baron-Cohen from Cambridge University has a long-standing interest in demonstrating that Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are more prevalent in populations presenting with high systemizing skills. These are people who like...
  • Mercury Leaves Its Mark: Autism, Cancer & Neur ...
    By Teresa Conrick This is a continuing look at a hypothesis, using pertinent pieces of evidence-based research, that connects autism and other neurodegenerative disorders to mercury and also to cancer. Read Part 2 and Part 1. Here is such a...
  • Autism Centers of Excellence Devours Research ...
    By Katie Wright I have been poring over every NIH autism grant from 2009. Every single grant, the amount awarded and the investigator is listed and categorized within of the Strategic Plan guidelines. The Strategic Plan recommendations have been really...
  • Mrs. Wessels Talks Autism
    By Lin Wessels 8th Grade English "Cause and Effect" Project: An interview with Mrs. Wessels, Sam's mom, by BT What does autism mean to you? To me, autism means my life and the path of my life has been forever...
  • "Following Vaccinations" -- 900 Voices Telling ...
    By Dan Olmsted I've just spent several hours reading what I believe is one of the most important documents ever created about children's health. Just click on followingvaccinations.com and see for yourself. The simple idea -- on September 18, 2010,...

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • BofA near $8.5 billion settlement on securities
    Reuters – Bank of America Corp is close to a deal to pay $8.5 billion to settle claims from a group of powerful investors that lost money on mortgage-backed securities, a source familiar with the process said on Tuesday. The settlement, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, would be the lar ...
  • BART agrees to $1.3-million settlement with mo ...
    LA Times – Two and a half years after Oscar Grant III was shot to death by a transit police officer, the Bay Area Rapid Transit district agreed to pay his mother $1.3 million to settle her civil case against the agency and the law enforcement agents involved. Wanda Johnson had sued BART and the ...
  • Prospects improve Greek austerity plan will pass
    Reuters – In a boost to embattled Prime Minister George Papandreou, one of his three deputies from his ruling Socialist party backtracked and said he would support the five-year plan of budget cuts, tax rises and privatization, vital for Greece to win EU/IMF funds in July needed to pay its debts ...
  • Israel pushes Greece to halt Gaza flotilla
    PressTV – Organizers of an international flotilla to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip say the Tel Aviv regime is making Greece halt delivery of aid to the Palestinian territory. They complain that Greece is throwing up âadministrative obstaclesâ for the activists in response to pressure ...
  • Libyan Base Falls to a Rebel Ambush in the West
    NY Times – In darkness on Monday night and Tuesday morning, rebel soldiers from towns throughout the Nafusah Mountain region gathered to put the finishing touches on a bold mission: they planned to capture a sprawling military base controlled by government soldiers that was still stocked, they b ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Colorado caves opened despite threat to bats
    "Bat biologists are saying a human-caused jump of white-nose syndrome into the western United States could be absolutely devastating, so why are some federal land managers taking the risk and leaving caves open?”
  • Conservation group asks White House to commit ...
    These parks are in jeopardy,” said Ron Tipton, NPCA senior vice president. “We are concerned about the condition of park resources, but we also believe there are solutions to all these challenges. We believe there is hope and opportunity.”
  • Rare bats, battered by white-nose syndrome, ma ...
    Bats may warrant endangered species status because of white nose syndrome, which is killing bats.
  • California's new pesticide plan sparks protest
    Twenty-five environmental and pubic health groups asked Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday to abandon the state's new plan for eradicating agricultural pests and explore a less toxic approach, such as crop rotation or planting neighboring crops that deter insects. The...
  • Is Arctic drilling safe? Scientists aren't sure
    Escalating oil prices and diminishing supplies around the world are focusing more attention than ever on the vast petroleum reserves under the Arctic seabed, and in the relatively pristine shoreline areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the National...

water.org

  • Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan (Fast Co ...
    Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa? (Fast Company) – The inside story of Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe’s great crises. Once upon a time, Matt Damon went for a long walk in rural Zambia. The devoted family man and method [...]
  • Interview with Water.org’s April Rinne (GGT)
    INTERVIEW: Water.Org’s April Rinne (Green Global Travel) – While other charities may have similar goals, Water.org’s WaterCredit program is unique in that it is works in partnership with microfinance institutions to establish markets in which there is fair access to affordable loans for everyone ...
  • You’re Invited: June 1st Conference Call
      Wednesday, June 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049
 Participant code: 449749# Not everyone who needs water should have to wait for charity to find them. Learn how Water.org is putting microfinance tools and partnerships to use in helping people get safe water ...
  • Brightest students solving the water crisis
    Hult International Business School Global Case Challenge crowd sources solutions to the water crisis with help from the Clinton Global Initiative. Team from Cambridge University wins Case Challenge.
  • Student group Project RightChoice (Dartmouth)
    Student org. hosts fundraising gala (The Dartmouth) – By selling raffle tickets for a $2,500 cash reward and hosting games with prizes from over 50 local business, members of the student group Project RightChoice raised over $20,000 to support the charity organization Water.Org at a Cinco de May ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • French senator calls MKs 'colonialists' - Isra ...
    But when French Senator Monique Cerisier Ben Guiga took the stand, later on, she expressed harsh criticism against Israel. She claimed the state was practicing "colonialism" and preventing Gazans from leading normal lives. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Obama Beats Palin In Alaska, Poll Shows
    A new poll shows President Obama beating Mama Grizzly in her homestate. When asked if they preferred Obama or Palin, 42% of responders leaned towards Obama, while only 36% chose Palin. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Joe Stagni, Kenner City Councilman, Apologizes ...
    "I had an inappropriate but consensual relation (sic) with an adult female and we exchanged improper electronic communications which ended (in) 2009," La. City Councilman Joe Stagni said in a statement. What is wrong with these frigging people!Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov' ...
  • Demand Humane Treatment for Gilad Shalit
    This past Saturday marked the fifth year since Gilad was first held in secret detention. As time passes, it's getting more difficult to believe that Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was 19 years old when he was captured by armed Palestinian groups...Submitted by Nancy C. to World �|� �Note- ...
  • Israel out to stop new Gaza flotilla
    Israel's navy is preparing to stop a new flotilla of ships which is about to set sail from Greece in an attempt to break the blockade on the Gaza Strip. "Those on board the new flotilla are seeking "confrontation and blood" ???Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Deiss Urges States to Strengthen UN Role in Gl ...
    On global economic governance, he said the international community needed to go beyond crisis management and instead formulate and implement longer-term strategies for balanced and durable global economic growth.
  • Hindus Celebrate Ratha Jatra Festival
    Zed urged all Hindus to focus on the 'welfare of others' and 'act selflessly' as pointed out by Lord Krishna in Bhagavad-Gita.
  • EPA Issues E15 Pump Labeling Requirements
    Over the past year, EPA issued two partial waivers under the Clean Air Act that in sum allow E15 to be sold for use in model year 2001 and newer cars and light trucks.
  • US Strengthens Egyptian Private Sector on Seve ...
    Mr. Fernandez said Egypt has the challenge to undertake reforms to shed the legacies of the past that have stunted private sector growth - including making it easier to start a business, to invest, to settle disputes, and even to just be an employee
  • 'Atlantis' Poised For Final Space Shuttle Mission
    The launch date was announced Tuesday at the conclusion of a flight readiness review at Kennedy. During the meeting, senior NASA and contractor managers assessed the risks associated with the mission and determined the shuttle and station's equipme

Worldnews

  • Why do we get tired by noon?
    There is something about the post lunch hour, when a sense of boredom creeps in and time weighs so heavy that you can almost hear the clock tick. As the sun shines brightest upon the day, we feel an urge to retire to bed or if we are at work, to put our heads and catch 40 winks. The midday ...
  • West Brom still awaiting decisions on mid ...
    West Brom expect to find out in the next few days whether midfielder Zoltan Gera will be rejoining them. Gera is a free agent after his contract with Fulham finished at the end of last season. Top Gera: Zoltan was a popular figure at West Brom He spent four years at the Hawthorns before mak ...
  • Can the Internet help you lose weight?
    People tend to lose a little more weight with online help than with traditional weight loss programs, a Japanese study said -- but combining the Internet with in-person contact appears to be the most effective in keeping extra kilograms at bay. With obesity on the rise, there have been many ...
  • Aston Villa target Manchester City goalke ...
    New Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish is stepping up his attempts to sign a proven goalkeeper with Shay Given amongst the targets on his radar, Press Association Sport understands. The Manchester City player spent last season as number two to Joe Hart, who reaped the benefits of a season und ...
  • England confirm Pakistan series in UAE
    England have confirmed they will play Pakistan in an away series in the United Arab Emirates this winter. England will meet Pakistan, who are unable to host home series due to security concerns, in three Tests, four one-day internationals and three Twenty20s in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The tour ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Greeks Pass Critical Budget Cuts Despite Protests
    ATHENS, Greece -- Greek lawmakers Wednesday approved a package of austerity measures demanded by international lenders, despite protests outside Parliament as they were voting, in a move that should clear the way for an emergency loan to Athens. Greek riot police fired round after round of tear ...
  • US Cost of War at Least $3.7 Trillion and Counting
    When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America's wars. Staggering as it is, that figure grossly underestimates the total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the U.S. Treasury and ignores m ...
  • Fresh Clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square
    CAIRO - Clashes are continuing between Egyptian security forces and more than 5,000 protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, leaving more than�590 injured, according to witnesses and medical officials. Tahrir Square, the epicenter of protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's former president, ...
  • Rewriting History: Nuke Plants Designed to Las ...
    ROCKVILLE, Maryland� -- When commercial nuclear power was getting its start in the 1960s and 1970s, industry and regulators stated unequivocally that reactors were designed only to operate for 40 years. Now they tell another story - insisting that the units were built with no inherent life span, ...
  • Growing Fire Advances on Nuclear Weapons Lab
    LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico -- UPDATE 8:38 PM EDT -- New Mexico fire managers scrambled on Tuesday to reinforce ground crews battling for a third day against a fierce blaze roaring out of control at the edge of one of the nation's top nuclear weapons production centers. The fire's leading edge burned ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

  • Green House takes brief hiatus
    This Green House community will take a hiatus until August, because its moderator, Wendy Koch, is on medical leave. Please check back in a few weeks for environmental news and updates on her journey in green living.
  • My green house is finally, almost, done
    "It's surreal," my husband Alex said about living in our new home a few days after moving in last month. Indeed, it is. We've nurtured the project so long on paper that actually being inside it felt odd or dream-like.
  • U.S. national parks suffer from climate change ...
    America's national parks are suffering as wildlife such as gray wolves disappears, air quality deteriorates and many waterways are polluted, an upcoming report will reveal.
  • Fastest sea-level rise in 2,100 years linked t ...
    The sea-level is now rising faster along the U.S. Atlantic coast than at any time in the past 2,100 years, and this surge is linked to increasing global temperatures, an international research team reports.
  • Supreme Court backs EPA over states on climate ...
    The Supreme Court unanimously rejected Monday a lawsuit by six states that were suing five major power companies for emitting greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Scalia Sets Standard for Massive Mortgage Frau ...
    By Michael Collins There hasn't been much in the way of justice for the average citizen for quite a while. Often, those accused of crimes cannot afford adequate representation and are subject to "let's make a deal justice." If you're unfortunate enough to be sued or party to a divorce proce ...
  • “After you Brother!” Qadaffi stay ...
    Franklin Lamb, Tripoli, Libya The 6/27/11 International Criminal Courts (ICC) arrest warrants issued for Muammar Gadhafi, his son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, and Libya intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanoussi, however pleasing to the “rebels” and NATO, probably won’t have much effect on negotiating a ...
  • FBI Entraps Two More Muslims
    by Stephen Lendman By now, the familiar storyline sounds more like a film plot than criminal indictment, especially when Muslims are involved, and the most recent case repeats the same scenario used last December. Then it involved Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain, accused of plott ...
  • Oceans on brink of catastrophe
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  • Foreign Aid and the Economic Crisis
    By Timothy V. Gatto From The Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think-Tank: “Abstract: Since 2000 about 95 percent of U.N. member states that receive U.S. assistance have voted against the United States most of the time in the U.N. General Assembly on non-consensus votes. The U.S. should ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • BC's unfair tax system means wealthy pay lower ...
    Today the CCPA-BC released a new report that reveals how ten years of tax cuts and changes have created an unfair system in which the wealthy pay lower taxes and the public treasury is starved for funds. Not only are BC's wealthiest 20% of households paying the lowest tax rate, tax cuts have led ...
  • Job posting: Online Communications Officer
    The CCPA National office is seeking an Online Communications Officer to join our communications team in Ottawa to support and expand the CCPA’s ongoing communications and outreach efforts. The deadline for applications is August 19, 2011. Click here for the full job posting.
  • Linda McQuaig in Regina and Saskatoon!
    � Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Linda McQuaig will speak in both�Regina and Saskatoon on Wednesday October 19th and�Thursday October 20th. Linda will discuss her new book, The Trouble with Billionaires, �which critically examines how extremes of wealth undermine both our qua ...
  • Cashing in: Canada’s CEO salary surge
    Maclean's magazine focuses on Canada's highest paid 50 CEOs and finds their take-home pay increases to be "astronomical". Macleans writes: "In the past 12 years, there’s been a 444 per cent salary increase for Canada’s top CEOs." Read more here.
  • Where the millionaires live
    The Globe and Mail created an interesting infographic that breaks down millionaires by where they live in the world. It shows Canada as home to 282,000 millionaires. See it here.
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